Thousands ‘slowly dying’ in Yarmouk camp

This week the Irish Examiner printed this incredible image of thousands of people queuing for food aid on the war-torn streets of Syria. Serene Assir talks to residents of the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk where fighting off starvation and death has become a daily reality.

Gaunt, ragged figures fill the streets for as far as the eye can see in the besieged Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk outside Damascus, where some 40,000 are said to be slowly starving to death.

The UN distributed shocking images this week of thousands of people, their faces emaciated, desperately flocking to receive food aid that only a few were lucky enough to collect.