NOVANEWS
The foreign-backed militants stormed the refugee camp nearly a year ago, displacing thousands of the Palestinian residents and even Syrians at the camp.
The Alliance of Palestinian Forces, which includes several Syria-based Palestinian factions, have been holding talks with various armed groups positioned in Yarmouk to convince the militants to withdraw from the camp or surrender.
This is not the first attempt to make the militants leave Yarmouk.
According Khaled Abdul-Majid of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, the militants have shown willingness to move away from the camp.
“Arms groups contacted the general command of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, we then discussed what we can do for bringing the camp back to its residents,” Abdul-Majid told Press TV on Saturday.
Palestinian factions have sent a delegation into Yarmouk to finalize a deal with the leaders of armed groups.
Large numbers of armed groups are fortified in the camp, some affiliated to al-Qaeda and others to the so-called Free Syrian Army.
The initiative comes as dozens of militants surrendered to the authorities in November following a siege imposed on the armed groups and an amnesty decree issued by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and.
Syria hosts half a million Palestinian refugees, most of them living in Yarmouk. The camp turned into a flashpoint area in Damascus when unrest broke out in the country in 2011.
