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The United Nations has a plea for humanitarian access to the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the suburbs of Damascus. The UN is about the plight of around 18,000 Palestinian refugees up in the camp. Many of Yarmouk's residents after the group ISIS last Wednesday and the camp. Jordan’s Ambassador to the UN Dina Kawar "for the protection of civilians in the camp" and for "humanitarian access to the area including…life-saving assistance". Another UN spokesperson Pierre Krahenbuhl the situation as "more desperate than ever". He : "What civilians in Yarmouk are most concerned about right now bare survival".

Yarmouk was in 1957 to the huge influx of Palestinian refugees from Israel. It home to the largest Palestinian refugee community in Syria. Before the recent ISIS incursion, around 160,000 people there. Life in the camp had already intolerable for most residents following 18 months of bombing and a siege because of Syria's civil war. Many parts of the camp now a ghost town, with shells of bomb-blasted buildings and a civilian population that has . News agencies report that ISIS now about 90 per cent of the camp. Syrian authorities are worried ISIS could it as a springboard to attacks on the capital Damascus.