UN Can Not Reach Palestinians at Yarmouk Camp Trapped in Syria’s Civil War

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Rick Gladstone, A Disquieting Image, Yes, But It Is Real, an Official Says. New York Times, Mar 12, 2014.
www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/world/middleeast/syria.html

Note:
(a) The Scottish name Gladstone is the name of "a place near Biggar in Lanarkshire, apparently named from Old English gleoda ‘kite’ + stan ‘stone.’"
(b) United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Relief_and_Works_Agency_for_Palestine_Refugees_in_the_Near_East
(UNRWA; created in 1949; The Agency's headquarters are divided between the Gaza Strip and Amman, Jordan)
(c)
(i) The photo online in Nytimes.com is the same as that in print. However, the online version is much bigger, provides better resolution--as good as the one in UNRWA Web site (next), so you need not visit the UN site.
(ii) the photo at issue:

#LetUsThrough to Help Civilian in Syria. UNRWA, undated.
www.unrwa.org/let-us-through

A bit more of foreground of the same photo--identical to that in the NYTimes report--can be viewed by clicking a smaller photo in the bottom right of this Web page.

(d)
(i) Yarmouk Camp
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarmouk_Camp
(a district of the City of Damascus, populated by Palestinians; As of June 2002, there were 112,550 registered refugees living in Yarmouk; established in 1957)
(ii) Battle of Yarmouk
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yarmouk
(Aug 15-20, 636 (six days); near the Yarmouk River, along what is today the border between Syria and Jordan, south-east of the Sea of Galilee; The result of the battle was a complete Muslim victory which ended Byzantine rule in Syria)
(iii) For a map of Yarmouk River, see Jordan River
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_River
(Jordan River flows south through Sea of Galilee, joined by Yarmouk River [its largest tributary], to Dead Sea)