Israel-backed terrorists terrorize and kill [the residents of] Yarmouk camp to undermine Assad’s popularity among Palestinians

An Iranian legislator says Syria militants want to drag Palestinian refugees living in Yarmouk camp into the Syrian conflict to put more pressure on Damascus.

Iran Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Spokesman Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said on Friday that Syrian terrorists want to make the crisis in Damascus worse by attacking Yarmouk camp.

“Turning Palestinian refugees against President Bashar al-Assad and his government is a criminal conspiracy organized by the Syrian opposition and their Western-Arab masters,” Naqavi Hosseini noted.

He stressed that the Syrian army has no role in the clashes in Yarmouk camp, noting that the West and Israel will stop at nothing, not even the massacre of Palestinian refugees, to get their way in Syria.

“Syrian militants terrorize and kill [the residents of] Yarmouk camp to undermine Assad’s popularity among Palestinians and portray the Syrian army [as the force] behind the massacre in…the camp,” the Iranian lawmaker said.

On January 1, at least 10 people were killed and many others injured in a car bomb explosion in Yarmouk refugee camp.

The anti-Syrian forces have sought to take control of Yarmouk camp in a bid to claim more ground in Damascus.

The camp and the districts surrounding it have borne the brunt of fighting in Damascus over the past few months.

Residents say Yarmouk camp has been closed off from neighboring districts and that they hear regular clashes.

At least 20 people died in September when mortar shells slammed into the Palestinian refugee camp.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Many people, including large numbers of security forces, have been killed in the turmoil.

The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the militants are foreign nationals.