PLO official to hold talks with Syria on Yarmouk relief
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A senior Palestinian official said Monday he was headed to Damascus for talks on helping residents inside the Yarmouk refugee camp, parts of which have been overrun by the Islamic State group.
Ahmed Majdalani, an official with the PLO, told AFP that he would discuss with Syrian officials "ways to offer help to our people in the Yarmouk camp".
In a statement, the PLO called for "all sides to immediately agree to protect the camp from efforts to turn it into a battlefield". t also called for civilians to have access to relief corridors and to humanitarian and medical assistance.
Majdalani accused IS militants of "seeking to control the whole camp" and to use it "as a springboard for attacks on the Syrian capital Damascus because of its strategic location".
