Syrian planes hit Yarmouk mosque killing dozens

http://www.euronews.com/ At least 25 people have been killed in the Yarmouk refugee camp in southern Damascus. Syrian fighter-bombers fired at least one missile into a mosque in the camp that was sheltering 600 people from the intense fighting in surrounding areas.
 
It is the first time the camp, home to nearly half a million Palestinians, many of whom are supporting Bashar al-Assad, has been attacked from the air. But Yarmouk is also the scene of fighting between pro and anti-Assad Palestinian forces, the latter fighting alongside the rebels.
 
Yarmouk sits in the swathe of territory in southern Damascus that is under rebel control, or where rebels are squeezing government forces who are often assisted by fighters from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Their military leader left the city along with his son just hours before the airstrike.
 
It is an unexpected consequence of the conflict; with many Palestinians fighting with the rebels their movement is split, a problem Hamas avoided when it quietly pulled out of Syria when the fighting started. 

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[Benad361]

So much for Assad allegedly caring about the Palestinians. He's killed well over 300 of them; more than Israel has in the last few weeks/months!

[fightandpray]

WELL COUSIN, YOU ARE RIGHT , REMEMBER WHEN THE CRUSADERS INVADE IRAK, THEY TELL US ,"  YOU WILL GET A STATE", ONLY PROMISSES, AND ITS TRUE NOW ISRAEL IS WEAK AND LOOK THEY DONT ENTER GROUND INVASION TO GAZA, BUT 98% OF ARAB COUNTRIES ARE TRAITORS, NOT THE PEOPLE, ISRAEL PLAN IS MAKE ALL ARAB COUNTRIES PRE. INDUSTRIAL IGNORANT FANATICAL, COZ ZIONIST KNOW THEY WILL DECLARE A OPEN WAR AGAINST ISRAEL, THE BEST WAY TO D EFEAT ISRAEL IS GUERRILLA.

[fightandpray]

AHAAHAHAH, I THINK YOU DONT HAVE THE INFORMATION DUDE, WELL DONT WORRY PISSRAHELL WILL BE DISMANTEL, AND PALESTINE WILL BE FREE, DO YOU KNOW WHO IS REALLY SCARY???, SOME PALESTINIANS WHO HAVE BUSSINESS WITH PISSRAHELL, WE KNOW , EASY, WE KNOW.

[Azmi Bishara]

Why does Israel have to enter ground invasion into Gaza, when it can turn it into rubble by bombing it from the air, without even using cannon? Don't you see now that Hamas is afraid to fire even one single bullet on Israel? Like Hezbollah which hasn't fired a single bullet on Israel since the end of the 2006 war. Nasrallah is speaking high words but didn't do anything against Israel neither in 2009 nor now. And the joke is he justified his impotence by declaring that Hamas won...

[Azmi Bishara]

The arab countries are not stupid to get in conflict with Israel for the sake of the palestinians, when Israel gets too nervous it might even bring Lake Nasser to Cairo and Alexandria in one huge tsunami by using their nuclear weapons.

Before 2006 Nasrallah too said Israel is weak and look how he is still in hiding , israeli planes are flying every day over Lebanon and Hezbollah is afraid to fire even one single bullet on Israel.And now Hamas too is afraid to fire rockets on Israel...

[versioncity1]

unfortunately true.

[versioncity1]

is there ever a war where children don't get killed?

War is horrific.

[fightandpray]

GOOD NAME BISHARA, UNDERSTAN MY BROTHER....THIS NATO SQUADS TERRORISTS TRY TO TURN SYRIA AND PALESTINE AND ALL ARAB ANTI IMPERIALIST WORLD LIKE LIBYA AND IRAK, THIS TERRORISTS ANTI SUNNA ANTI ISLAM HIDE EVERYWHERE AND THEY HAVE THE SAME TACTIS OF MOSSAD AND CIA, WE KNOW THE 3RD INTIFADA IS COMING AND NOW ISRAHELL IS WEAK BUT,ARAB COUNTRIES DONT DO ANITHYNG, SUPPLIES?, WE NEED WARSHIP AND MISSILES MY BRO, BREAK GAZA SIEGE NOT WORDS, SALAM.

[Azmi Bishara]

Just imagine if Israel would have deliberately bombed a mosque and killed 25 palestinians, there would for sure have already been 2000000 comments...but when arabs do it is like the weather, no one really gives a shit...

[Azmi Bishara]

Well , if you like to be bombed and killed by syrian airplanes, I can only wish you success...

What siege is on Gaza, doesn't it have a 10 mile long common border with Egypt?! Don't the egyptians allow supplies to the palestinian brothers and sisters?