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U.N. Official Calls Situation At Yarmouk Refugee Camp 'Beyond Inhumane'

A siege by the self-proclaimed Islamic State has left nearly 18,000 people trapped in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria. NPR's Melissa Block interviews Christopher Gunness of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East about the humanitarian crisis there.

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