Pierre Krahenbuhl

: Is Canada ISIS mission ready for Syria moral maze Aid for Syrian refugees falling far short of soaring demand The deteriorating situation prompted the UN Security Council to call an emergency meeting Monday to discuss Yarmouk and receive a closed-door video conference briefing by the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Pierre Krahenbuhl, who called the humanitarian situation in the camp "completely catastrophic." The Security Council called for life-saving assistance and safe evacuation for the Palestinians, protection for the refugees, and humanitarian access to the camp — and said it will look into further measures to help achieve this, according to CBC. The council also condemned "the grave crimes" committed by ISIS and al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra against civilians in Yarmouk, and said their crimes must not go unpunished. 93 people evacuated so far After heavy fighting on Sunday, sporadic clashes broke out on Monday in Yarmouk, according to Hatem al-Dimashqi, an activist based in an area just south of Damascus, and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The heavy clashes that have raged since then have added yet another layer of misery for up to 18,000 Yarmouk residents who have already endured desperate conditions marked by a lack of basic food, medicine and water. Both al-Dimashqi and the Observatory said Syrian government aircraft have been shelling the camp and dropping barrel bombs since Sunday. Observatory director Rami Abdurrahman estimated that ISIS now controls as much as 90 per cent of Yarmouk, slowly squeezing out Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis. 'There is no food, there is no water and there is very little medicine... The situation in the camp is beyond inhumane.'- UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness Palestinian officials and Syrian activists say ISIS militants fighting in Yarmouk were working with rivals from the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, the Nusra Front. The fighting inside the camp has largely pitted ISIS against Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis, a Palestinian faction opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.