
Damn shame.
DAMASCUS (Ma’an) — A senior commander of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command was killed in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus on Tuesday, the group said.
Major General Nur Addin Ibrahim, nicknamed As-Sabi or ‘beast of prey’, was killed during a routine tour after a truce had been announced in an attempt to end a months-long crisis in the Palestinian camp.
The PFLP-GC said Ibrahim was murdered by a “terrorist group,” claiming that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a group fighting the Syrian government, planted an explosive device in Ibrahim’s car and detonated it from a distance.
On Monday, PLO leader Zakariya al-Agha said that armed men and weapons would leave the Damascus camp and workers would begin to rebuild Yarmouk to allow refugees to return.
The Syrian army has imposed a blockade on Yarmouk refugee camp for over 80 days and there has been no electricity or fuel in the camp for months, locals say.
The PFLP-GC is aligned with embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad.
