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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8821/palestinians-syria
The "Other" Palestinians
(Gatestone Institute) Khaled Abu Toameh - Nearly 3,500 Palestinians have been killed in Syria since the beginning of the civil war in 2011. Since the beginning of this year (until July), 200 Palestinians were killed in Syria. But because these Palestinians were killed by Arabs, and not Israelis, this fact is not news in the mainstream media. The Palestinian Authority leadership is currently seeking to improve its relations with the Assad regime in Syria - the very regime that is killing, imprisoning and torturing scores of Palestinians on a daily basis. The PA recently celebrated the inauguration of a new Palestinian embassy in Damascus. Yarmouk, 8 km. from the center of Damascus, is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria. In 2002, 112,000 Palestinians lived there. By the end of 2014, there were less than 20,000, who live without running water or electricity. More than 12,000 Palestinians languish in Syrian prisons. Some 503 Palestinian prisoners have died under torture in recent years. Yet Western journalists lavish time on Palestinians delayed at Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank, while they ignore barrels of explosives dropped by the Syrian military on residential areas in refugee camps in Syria.