The AGPS received news about violent clashes broke out between groups of he PLA and groups of the Syrian opposition in Tel Sowan area in East Gota, Damascus suburb, which resulted in a number of victims and injuries from the PLA; the two soldiers “Abdul Latif Saed Ghazzawi” and “Muhannad Mohammed Fares “, and the injury of the captain” Mohammed Jomaa”, from Khan Dannun camp in Damascus suburb.
It is noteworthy that the Palestinian refugees in Syria are obligated to join the PLA military service, and those who refuse to join it would be vulnerable imposed to prosecution and imprisonment. In the beginning of the events in Syria, the Syrian army and the PLA leadership tried to tip the Liberation Army and the youth of the camps to fight alongside the Syrian army against the Syrian armed opposition. It also tried to put the PLA groups in direct contact points with the Syrian armed opposition groups, which led to friction and casualties of the PLA. The AGPS documented the names of 99 Palestinian officers have died since the start of the events of the war in Syria.