Palestinians in Syria get pulled into civil war

By Ben Hubbard
Published July 26, 2012 4:00am ET
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Palestinians in Syria get pulled into civil war
FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 file photo, a Palestinian man shouts slogans as he carries a banner that reads in Arabic, "Erekat, Abbas, no legitimacy for you to give up my right and my children right," during a rally against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his government, in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk near Damascus, Syria. Since the start of the unrest, Syria's half million Palestinians have struggled to remain on the sidelines, saying they have little to gain and much to lose by taking sides in the fight between President Bashar Assad's regime and the armed rebels seeking to end his family's 40-year rule. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi, File) | Bassem Tellawi

BEIRUT (AP) — Like other communities sucked into Syria’s widening civil war, the Yarmouk neighborhood in Damascus has seen death and destruction. Soldiers and snipers have gunned down demonstrators. Some protesters have taken up arms to fight back.

But there’s one key difference: Most of Yarmouk’s residents are not Syrian citizens. They are Palestinian refugees.

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