From Ma’an News Agency:
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Fourteen Palestinian refugees were reported killed and another 43 injured on Monday, a report from the Palestinian government’s WAFA news said.
The victims were part of a massive group in Al-Yarmok, an unofficial Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital of Damascus, mourning the death of between 10-23 Palestinians by Israeli fire on the Golan Heights ceasefire line the day before.
Angered over the failure of camp leaders to organize demonstrations marking the Naksa, the anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and Golan Heights, an estimated 100,000 mourners were said to have attacked the headquarters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command.
Militants with the PRFL-GC reportedly opened fire on the group, who were taken to a local camp hospital for treatment. The report cited hospital staff saying 14 were pronounced dead.
During the clash, mourners reportedly set fire into the PFLP-GC headquarters, and condemned the group for its use of weapons against the crowd.
Palestine Press Agency adds that the PFLP-GC is a close partner with the Syrian leadership. Which would explain why a recognized terrorist group runs the Yarmouk camp.
Sources said that the demonstrators chanted against [PFLP-GC leader] Ahmad Jibril, Khaled Mashaal and other political leaders based in Damascus, accusing them of being agents of the Syrian regime.
This group was not “pro-Palestinian” enough to have some ceremonies to mark the 1967 war – like the Lebanese camps that had their solemn burning of tires at the entrances – so they attacked their terrorist leaders.
The terrorists did what one would expect them to do – shoot and kill their fellow Palestinian Arabs. (Note also that Syria has no problem allowing terror groups in these camps to be armed.)
The camp residents, naturally, then burn down the headquarters of their leaders.
And the upshot is – there are now 14 more martyrs of the “Naksa.” And the Syrians have reason to be suspicious of their Palestinian Arab “guests,” which could have some interesting repercussions, as the Palestinian Arabs in Syria have mostly been on the sidelines during the rioting against the regime.
Yes, I know you need a scorecard to keep all the factions straight. One thing is clear, though – everyone hates Israel, as this video of anti-government protesters in Homs stomping on Israeli – and Iranian! – flags shows:
Why bother trying to sort out and understand the various sub-human muslim/arab factions. They all hate Jews with their 8th century mindsets. No tears for any of them when they kill each other because there are no Jews or Christians around to kill.
PFLP-GC does NOT run Yarmouk. Also, most factions in Yarmouk does NOT have access to weapons, it’s not like the camps in Lebanon. PFLP-GC is widely hated in Yarmouk for being loyal to Syria first and Palestinians second (if even that). They are (quite rightly) seen as a semiproxy of the Syrian ‘mukhabarrat’ which explain why they are openly armed and funded by the Syrian regime and received help from the Syrian army in yesterdays clashes. Yesterday they spent the little politcal capital they had. PFLP-GC are finished.