(AP) Albert Aji - Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians, Filippo Grandi, head of the UN Relief and Works Agency, said Thursday. He said most of the 12 Palestinian camps have been affected by the fighting. "Armed groups and the government are confronting each other near the camps, inside the camps, and most or a large portion of the Palestinian population has had to leave those camps." The Yarmouk refugee camp, a sprawling neighborhood of 150,000 Palestinians on the outskirts of Damascus, has been the scene of heavy clashes in recent months. Palestinian officials said more than 700 camp residents have been killed in fighting, and that many of the others have left.
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