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Life slowly returns to a Palestinian camp in Syria

Life slowly returns to a Palestinian camp in Syria

Update: 2025-10-31
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Before it was destroyed in 2018, the Yarmouk camp near Damascus was home to Palestinians displaced during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. During the Syrian civil war that started in 2011, government forces laid siege to the camp, creating dire humanitarian conditions inside. Today, the camp is slowly starting to come back to life, as residents return and rebuild. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

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Life slowly returns to a Palestinian camp in Syria

Life slowly returns to a Palestinian camp in Syria

Shirin Jaafari