Residents of Syria's Yarmuk, located on the outskirts of Damascus, return home after the ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. Yarmuk camp, established in the 1950s to house Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their land after Israel's creation, had become a key residential and commercial district over the decades. As Syria sank into civil war in 2011, around 140,000 residents fled the following year, and few have found their homes still standing in the eerie wasteland that used to be Yarmuk.
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00:30I was born again, even though my house was destroyed,
00:34but I returned to the house where I was born.
00:38My happiness is indescribable.
01:00After 7 years of displacement, we returned to the Yarmouk camp.
01:14We returned to our families.
01:16There are still many families in the north of Syria.
01:18We were trapped in tents.
01:20We don't have a salary to come here to the south of Damascus.
01:24The situation is very bad.
01:26Today, the road rent is $300.
01:28If I don't have enough food, where can I get $300?