Syria is starving Palestinian refugees in Damascus's Yarmouk

Christian Ornelas, Jocelyne Rivera, Eduardo Barrera

The image and it's impact on public opinion

In March 11, 2014 in Damascus a city in Syria, thousands of Palestinian refugees are waiting to for relief food provided by the United Nations. When the reports of this incident hits the news people are surprised to see the way people are suffering. This affects on public opinion by stirring up Twitter. There has been over 23 millions retweets about the suffering of the Palestinian refugees. They have even started #letusthrough to attempt helping these people along with many others. When Syria's civil war erupted , Yarmouk was neutral, but staying above the fray soon proved impossible. Most camp residents fled, but the 18,000 with nowhere to go burned their furniture to cook cats, dogs and donkeys, a practice that a local imam licensed for want of alternative food.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/u-n-denies-altering-image-of-palestinian-refugees-in-damascus/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1

 http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21596576-palestinians-syria-have-had-enough-no-more-haven

The story behind the Civil War on Palestine 

In June 2007, a Palestinian terrorist organization launched a coup in the Gaza strip, to take control of territory from the Fatah faction. In the battle that followed, 161 Palestinians were killed and more than 700 were wounded. The aggressors, the Hamas made sure the wounded would not return to the battlefield by shooting their enemies in the legs and arms at point blank range to ensure permanent disabilities. The result of the battle left the Palestinian people divided. The Gaza strip remained the to the Hamas and the Fatah had control over the West Bank. The two Palestinian factions still remain in a state of conflict. They round up political foes and shut down newspapers. There has been reported torture on both sides. Other powers from Egypt, Turkey, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Mauritania have all tried to stop the fighting between the two factions but all attempts at peace have failed .

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/hamas-vs-fatah-the-palestinian-civil-war/

Our opinion on the whole situation 

We think this article about the civil war was really terrifying. There's a lot of people getting injured and killed because of the war. The fact that normal people, civilians have to flee from their homes because others decide to cause war is a terrible concept to understand. The people that you see on the image from the first article are far from their home and are now suffering from something that they did not cause or deserve. The media has been scarce on information about these events but when photos like these get shown it really opens your eyes to be more sympathetic to the people who are less fortunate.