Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday called on the UN to
intervene to allow thousands of Palestinians from Syria to enter the West Bank
and the Gaza Strip.
Abbas’s appeal came after thousands of Palestinians
from the Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus fled in recent days to Lebanon
because of the fighting between the Syrian army and rebel forces.
Earlier
this week, dozens of Palestinians were killed when Syrian jets fired rockets at
the camp.
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