nytimes.com - The top United Nations official for aiding Palestinian refugees visited Syria on Saturday as part of an intensified effort to avoid a humanitarian calamity at the besieged Yarmouk camp. About 18,000 civilians are trapped there as government forces clash with Islamic State militants who seized control of that area more than a week ago.
The official, Pierre Krähenbühl, commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, was undertaking “an urgent mission” in coordination with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the agency’s spokesman, Christopher Gunness, said in a statement.
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