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.
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