The Palestinians in Syria and the impossible neutrality!

The Palestinians of the Yarmouk camp specifically are now orphans without care or embrace. The camp’s majority residents who consist of the Palestinian refugees totaling nearly a quarter million Palestinian citizens living in the heart of the camp (the core of the camp) left it along with a two times number of their Syrian siblings who reside and live inside the camp and on its thick borders. Only less than (30%) of the population were left therein, after a large number of its citizens returned, but the continued clashes and bloody rivalries taking place on its entrances and limbs pushed them again to leave the Yarmouk, which has now become almost an empty place and its population does not exceed about (15%) of the Syrian and Palestinians citizens alike, after it was vibrant.

It has become during the months of the Syrian crisis a safe haven for all those who entered it, especially from the surrounding areas of tension. The estimated number of those who resorted to it at the height of tensions in the neighborhood areas; Al-Tadamon quarter, Al-Hajar Al-Aswad quarter, Al-Asali quarter, Al-Qadam quarter, Al-Zohour quarter, the Yelda town, Babila and others, was about six hundred thousand Syrian citizens, who found in the Yarmouk a safe haven, and a good hand that helped them on more than one level.

The loud and massive explosions that occurred during the recent periods in some of the main squares of the camp led to the exodus of the bulk of those who remained in the Yarmouk refugee camp.

Those explosions were appalling and tragic and have left behind enormous devastation that needs huge amounts of money to repair the property and shops and other things that were devastated by the blast, which was caused by a car bomb.

The writer of these lines was sitting alone in his ground floor house near one of the squares of the explosion in a distance less than (200) meters away, and the ground have shook as well as the whole building and the region in general, and that scene, which does not bode well at all was the result. Someone, commenting on the incident and is pessimistic at the same time said, “The dance begins with a prance” according to the prevailing Palestinian popular proverb.

The Yarmouk camp is now living in a difficult and tragic situation, and the majority of its homes and estates are empty of people and population. (By the way, the most Real Estate of the Yarmouk camp are organization and registered properties in the records of the notary and taboo and are not from the areas of slums known around the city of Damascus), while the majority of the Palestinians of the Yarmouk refugee camp was distributed on wide arc in areas within the city of Damascus and on the edges, and a good number of them left heading towards Egypt, Lebanon and some European countries, reaching to Australia).

In fact, almost the Palestinian factions and forces all together failed to solve the problematic setback of the Yarmouk camp, were unable to stop the strife within some of its streets and entrances, and failed to make it safe again for all its citizens and for all those who enter it or reside in it out of the two brotherly peoples, the Syrian and Palestinian ones. However, there is still hope that they will be able to solve that problem.
Interestingly, in this context, the voice of the Palestinian official bodies is no longer heard regarding the Yarmouk refugee camp, and their efforts are still modest in practice and in terms of the initiative to contact with all parties to spare the Yarmouk from facing a new tragedy, and to return it as it was a safe haven for everyone without a weapon and without fighting in the streets.

Thus, a grim fate awaits the Yarmouk refugee camp and its inhabitants, if things remained as they are now without a political solution that should be found quickly before things worsen further in the negative direction.

The Yarmouk refugee camp with its family, people, and the general citizens of the Syrians and the Palestinians deserves all the respect and appreciation. It is considered the Palestinian national labor camp, the first shot, and the first gun in the path of the contemporary Palestinian revolution.

Therefore, the efforts of every sensible Palestinian and Syrian person from the opposition and others must be intensified, and every effort must be made to take the Yarmouk refugee camp out of the box of the interior Syrian crisis and stopping its boiling is not to turn the back to it, but to serve the national and Islamic interest of all the Syrian and Palestinian peoples, as well as to serve the Palestinian cause and the right of return. This comes because of the representation of the Yarmouk and its place in the conflict with the Zionist project, and with the international efforts that are behind the scenes since a long time burying the right of return, and obliterating the Palestinian camp and its status as a prominent title to the cause of right and of return.

Finally, the one who opens the door to pushing the Palestinians in Syria to engage in its internal crisis is but harming his self and his image, and is providing best service to the Zionist entity. There is no just cause in Syria if the price was shedding the Palestinian blood, displacing the people of refugees in their alienation, and causing a new catastrophe that its ending point is unknown. Hence, is the Palestinian-Syrian person prohibited from having a positive neutrality?