With the onset of a blizzard, "Syria's Response" warns of an increase in the poor humanitarian conditions for the displaced

With the onset of a blizzard, "Syria's Response" warns of an increase in the poor humanitarian conditions for the displaced

ARK News… The "Syria Response Coordinators" team warned of an increase in the poor humanitarian conditions of the displaced, in conjunction with a significant decrease in temperatures, and the continuation of the depression with heavy snowfalls, which greatly affected the camps of the displaced, specifically in the northern countryside of Aleppo.

The snowfalls caused great damage to the roads of many camps, with great difficulties in the movement of the displaced inside the camps, with the accumulation of snow and mud swamps inside the roads. Damage has been monitored inside 6 camps so far, with great obstacles to accessing other affected camps to count these damages.

The team recorded a case of fire inside one of the tents in the northern Aleppo camps as a result of the significant drop in temperature and the people’s resort to relying on inappropriate heating methods, expressing great fears of recording deaths inside the camps, especially children, as a result of the low temperatures, in addition to the occurrence of new cases of fires. inside the camps.

He pointed out that dozens of warnings and hundreds of appeals that have been directed so far to provide the necessary support for the displaced within the camps have not received any actual response so far, calling on all humanitarian organizations urgently to provide the necessary support for the displaced within the camps, especially heating materials, repairing damages inside the camps, and working to isolate the tents. urgently to prevent further damage.

The regions of northwestern Syria are witnessing heavy snowfalls in the highlands and mountainous areas, which caused the roads to be cut off and several areas to be isolated from each other, especially where the camps for the displaced are located, amid the efforts of the civil defense teams to contain the situation and reopen the main roads.

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