Human Rights Alert: Palestinians fleeing Latakia City Neighborhood are Shot at by Security Forces at Turkish Border

Because the neighborhood of Ramal in the coastal town of Latakia is being continuously bombarded by the Syrian navy, many of its residents -who are mostly Palestinian- have fled to neighboring towns and provinces. Activists report that some Palestinian residents took a micro-bus from Latakia province to neighboring Idlib province in an attempt to reach the Syrian-Turkish border and enter Turkey. Upon arriving at the border, Syrian forces opened fire on the microbus carrying an unknown number of Palestinian families, wounding most inside the bus. No other information as to their whereabouts or status is available at this time.