Four more Palestinians killed in Syria conflict

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Four Palestinian refugees were killed in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus on Wednesday bringing the number of Palestinian victims in the ongoing Syrian internal strife to 731 since mid-March 2011.The group for Palestinians in Syria announced in a statement on Thursday that the four were killed in the armed confrontations between the regular Syrian army and the free army of the opposition.It said that one of the four, Yehya Eliwa, was killed at the hands of a sniper while on his way to his house while two others, Marwan Khatib and Mohammed Abdulwahed, who fled from persecution in Iraq, succumbed to wounds sustained in an earlier bomb explosion near the Quds mosque and named the fourth as Walid Khatib.The group underlined that the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria were suffering growing shortages in bread and fuel.End item/ 149