Arab Israeli lawmaker Ahmed Tibi called the Islamic State takeover of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria “a crime against humanity.”
Tibi, a member of the Arab Joint List Party, said on April 6 that the international community, and Arab countries specifically, bear responsibility for allowing the violence in Yarmouk to occur.
More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since the Islamic State took over about 90 percent of the camp in the last week.
“I feel anger and great sadness about what is happening in what is left of the camp,” he said. “There is a moral double standard. If other people were the victims, not Palestinians, it would be different.”
Hundreds of Palestinians have fled the camp since the start of the takeover, and tens of thousands during the four years of civil war in Syria. — jta