Rainfalls harm thousands of displaced people in northwestern Syria

ARK News… The Syrian Response Coordinators Team said that the rainfall caused major damage to camps in northwestern Syria, amid a complete absence of humanitarian response by agencies working in the region.

A statement published by the team on its official Facebook page stated that more than 109,000 displaced people were affected by the rain fall in more than 309 camps, “which classifies the conditions inside the camps as a disaster area, and the region needs more than 20 days to recover.”

The damage was distributed "starting from the Khirbet al-Joz camps, west of Idlib, all the way to the border camps towards the northern Aleppo countryside, in addition to the surroundings of the city of Idlib, Maarat Misrin, Kali, Harbanush, Kafrehmoul, Hazano, and Zardana."

According to the statement, the complete absence of humanitarian response by all agencies working in the region and ignoring the conditions of the displaced within the camps “increases fears that the camps will turn into disaster areas if the humanitarian response stops and weather events continue in the region.”

He added, "The camps have turned into mass graves in every sense of the word, with a great weakness in the available services and capabilities and the lack of shelter centers to accommodate thousands of those affected."

The "response coordinators" called on humanitarian organizations and the international community to "intervene quickly to relieve the afflicted, identify their needs, meet their basic services, and compensate for the damage resulting from natural disasters in the region."

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