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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Damascus, Syria – 14 December 2024
1. Drone shot of the camp with the sun setting ++ MUTE ++
2. Drone shot of destroyed buildings in the camp ++ MUTE ++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Damascus, Syria – 12 December 2024
3. Various of destroyed buildings in the camp
4. Man pointing at his old house in a destroyed building
5. Tracking shot of destroyed buildings
6. Destroyed street in the camp
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmad al-Hussein, former camp resident:
“To put it simply; we are now free. You can go anywhere you want when you have freedom, but before this we needed 20 different approvals (to enter the camp), and you need to appease and pay and bribe so many different people.”
8. Destroyed mosque
9. Pan down of destroyed mosque
10. Various shots of destroyed mosque
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Dakhnous, former camp resident:
“But the signs so far in this week, until now, the positions and proposals that are being put forward by the new government are good for the people and the citizens.”
12. Various of aid organization distributing bread
13. Women walking in the camp
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taghrid Halawi, former camp resident:
“To me the camp is my soul. You really feel that your Palestine is here, even though you are far from Palestine, but there are so many things here that speak Palestine. We really hope and pray to God that the camp will be rebuilt soon and become better than before. Even with all this destruction, I feel like it’s like heaven.”
15. Various of people at a fruit and vegetable stand at the camp
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Damascus, Syria – 14 December 2024
16. Various drone shots of destroyed buildings in the camp ++ MUTE ++
STORYLINE:
The Yarmouk refugee camp outside of Damascus was seen by many as the capital of the Palestinian diaspora before the war in Syria reduced it to row after row of blasted-out buildings where there were once falafel stands, pharmacies and mosques.
Taken over by a series of militant groups and then bombarded by government warplanes, the camp has been all but abandoned since 2018.
The buildings that were not destroyed by bombs were demolished by the government or stripped by thieves.
Residents who wanted to return to rebuild their homes were stymied by Kafkaesque bureaucratic and security requirements.
But bit by bit, the camp’s former occupants have trickled back. After the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad in a lightning offensive by opposition forces, many more hope they will be able to do so.
At the same time, Syria’s Palestinian refugees – a population of about 450,000 – are unsure of their place in the new order.
Days after Assad’s government collapsed, women walked in groups through the streets of Yarmouk camp while children played in the rubble.
Motorcycles, bicycles and the occasional car passed between bombed-out buildings. In one of the less heavily damaged areas, a fruit and vegetable market was doing brisk business.
Some people were coming back for the first time in years to check on their homes. Others had been back before but only now were thinking about rebuilding their houses and coming back for good.
Ahmad al-Hussein left the camp in 2011, soon after the beginning of the anti-government uprising-turned-civil-war.
A few months ago, driven by the rising rents elsewhere, he came back to live with relatives in a part of the camp that was relatively untouched.
He is now hoping to rebuild his house, in a building that is still standing but reduced to a hollowed-out shell and marked for demolition.
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