A Damascus-based Palestinian official said Saturday that 3,000 people have recently been evacuated from the rebel-held Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees in the Syrian capital of Damascus, adding that the situation in the camp is getting better following the delivery of more than 7,000 food parcels.

"Those parcels are enough for three weeks," Anwar Raja, the spokesman of the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General-Command, told Xinhua.

The recent development in Yarmouk came in the wake of a deal concluded between Palestinian factions and armed rebels inside the camp, a large district in southern Damascus.

Among its one million residents, 180,000 are Palestinians, most of whom fled to Syria in 1948 following the establishment of the Israeli state.

The rebels stormed the camp in early 2013 and since then most of the camp's residents have fled to neighboring areas and countries, while others, who stayed at their homes, have suffered hunger, illness and lack of medical treatment.

Syrian government forces have imposed a siege on Yarmouk for months, blocking the entry of food and medical supplies in a bid to drive out the rebels.

The Syrian authorities accused the rebels, mostly al-Qaida- linked fighters, of using the civilians as human shields and causing immense suffering for them.

Raja said the situation in the camp has become better recently following the entry of food rations, adding that the Palestinian armed men, who have joined the rebels in the camp, are set to surrender their weapons to the Syrian authorities akin to what happened in other areas of Damascus, where reconciliation instances have succeeded.

Raja noted that the deal with the rebels does not cover all of the camp, but only half of it.

"The camp consists of two parts and the settlement that we are talking about includes the part between the west of Yarmouk to the Thirteen Street. That is roughly half of the camp," he said. "The armed rebels are now stationing in the other part, which is the bigger one that houses more residents."

"So, when we succeed in the first stage of the agreement without obstacles, we would move to the next one where we can negotiate the rebels' departure from the other part of the camp," he noted.

Raja said the drastic solution for the camp is for the rebels to leave that area to alleviate the suffering of the people of Yarmouk.

He added that the rehabilitation process in the truce-covered part will start within three weeks, adding that the entire reconstitution process needs "cooperation from friendly countries to help us in reviving those ravaged areas."