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Life "no longer bearable" in Syria, says Palestinian refugee

Life "no longer bearable" in Syria, says Palestinian refugee One of the most distressing scenes that Redwan Amayra witnessed in  Syria  was of a woman being shot as she carried some bread. After warplanes hit  Yarmouk , a Palestinian refugee camp near  Damascus , last November, Amayra decided to flee. A 60-year-old teacher employed with the  UN agency for Palestine refugees  (UNRWA), Amayra had just registered with the  Palestinian Authority’s  embassy in  Cairo . It is not the first time that his family has been uprooted: they were forced to leave  Safed , a town in the  Galilee  region of historic Palestine, when it was attacked by Zionist forces in 1948.