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Bashar Al Asaad; Lyse Doucet

Residents wait to receive food aid distributed by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at the besieged al-Yarmouk camp, south of Damascus

Yarmouk is a man-made disaster zone, right inside the Syrian capital of Damascus

Conflict & Justice

It’s difficult not to be moved by some of the images coming out this week of one particular district in Damascus. In Yarmouk, a sea of grim faces stare out from two rows of bombed out buildings. This section of the Syrian capital, after being under siege for months, has become a man-made disaster zone.

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