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An Arab member of Israel’s Knesset condemned the global community, including the Arab world, for allowing the massacre by the Islamic State of Levant and Iraq in Syria’s Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp.

“What’s happening in the Yarmouk camp is a crime against humanity,” Ahmed Tibi said. “Over a thousand Palestinians were killed.”

The Yarmouk camp near Damascus, was once home to over 100,000 residents, but now has some 18,000 according to the UN Relief and Works Agency.

ISIL has taken over 90 percent of Yarmouk, according to reports by a human rights group.

Syrian forces and President Bashar Assad’s palace are only a few kilometers distant.

“ISIL is a fascist movement that is now publishing photos of heads it chopped off, including a photo of the Imam of the mosque, a Hamas supporter, and claiming he is an apostate,” Tibi said.

“I feel anger and great sadness about what is happening in what is left of the camp,” he stated. “There is a moral double standard. If other people were the victims, not Palestinians, it would be different.”

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