Blocking aid to #Yarmouk camp may be war crime: #UN rights chief
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Syria’s repeated obstruction of aid convoys to the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in southern Damascus might be considered a war crime, UN rights chief Navi Pillay said Friday. “Impeding humanitarian assistance to civilians in desperate need may amount to a war crime,” Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement. Rebels control swathes of Yarmouk, but for months Syrian government forces have imposed a suffocating siege on the camp, where some 20,000 Palestinians live despite terrible shortages. read more