An International Center report: Syria is the country most affected by internal displacement due to war

ARK News… A report by the International Center for Internal Displacement Assessment revealed that internal displacement has changed the demographics of the Middle East over the past ten years, especially in Syria, which is facing war and systematic forced displacement by the Syrian regime and its allies.

The report pointed out that “war and terrorism” are the main causes of displacement, due to the violence they cause against the civilian population and the destruction of homes and infrastructure, and made clear that Syria is still the country most affected by this phenomenon, where 6.5 million people remaining among the displaced in 2019, in addition to 5.6 million people of Syrian refugees living abroad.

According to what was reported by the French newspaper "La Croix", the director of the International Center for the Assessment of Internal Displacement, Alexandra Bellak, said, "Half of the Syrian population before the war was displaced at least once, and some families moved 25 times within 10 years."

The center's report stated that the Syrians fled the bombing of the Syrian regime, which was reinforced by the Russian bombing in 2015, and the terror of the Islamic State, to the point that certain areas were abandoned, as in the case of Raqqa, the former capital of ISIS, which lost 53% of its population, in addition to the Sinjar region of Maarat al-Numan in Idlib countryside, where the displaced make up 70% of its population.

He concluded by stressing that the possibility of Syrians returning to their original areas is not a possibility, noting that “when Bashar al-Assad regained control over Syria, he seized many homes, and linked the return of Syrians to a series of laws that question their right to property, as it obliges them to present papers that are often lost in 10 years of the civil war.

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