Palestinian community in Britain to send aid to Palestinian refugees in Syria

The Palestinian community in Britain has announced an initiative aiming to send aid to the Palestinian refugees in the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria, reports Middle East Monitor.Yarmouk refugee camp has been besieged since semptember 2013. No aidworkers have been able to enter the camp since then and the 20 000 palestinian refugees in the camp are in desperate need of humanitarian aid.The initiative was disclosed during a meeting of the Palestinian Forum. The initiative is the first of its kind and aims to enhance cooperation within the palestinian community.One of the attenders of the forum, Deputy Secretary of Fatah's Revolutionary Council Dr Sabri Saidam, said in his speech that "the political situation affecting the region as a whole compels us as Palestinians to work hard to unite the various political movements, and to go beyond courtesies into actual programmes to save the Palestinian cause."