World political, religious & other leaders must act 2 #SaveYarmouk RT — Pierre Krähenbühl (@PKraehenbuehl) April 5, 2015 Speaking to Germany's Deutsche Welle, Christopher Gunness, spokesman for UNRWA, described the situation as already catastrophic even before current escalation, saying that "Yarmouk was already a place where women had died in childbirth for lack of medicine, where children had reportedly died of malnutrition.