Preliminary number of displaced from fighting in Syria…crisis worsens

Samer Abdel Jaber, director of emergency coordination at the World Food Program, told a news conference in Geneva: “The figures available to us are 280,000 people as of November 27. This number was updated Thursday evening. It does not include people who fled Lebanon during the recent escalation” in the conflict Hezbollah andIsrael.

Crisis upon crisis

The World Food Program has warned that new mass displacements inside Syria, more than 13 years after the outbreak of the country’s civil war, are “adding to years of suffering”.

Abdul Jaber pointed that out World Food Programme Its humanitarian partners want to “secure pathways” that allow aid to be delivered to “communities in need”.

“This is crisis after crisis,” he stressed, stressing the urgent need for additional funding to meet the enormous needs ahead.

A UN official said: “If the situation continues to develop at the current rate, we expect that around 1.5 million people will be displaced and will need our support” in Syria.

It happened Movements Collectively since the opposition factions were led Hai’at Tahrir al-Sham His sudden attack more than a week ago.

The attack coincided with the conclusion of a fragile ceasefire agreement in neighboring Lebanon between Israel and pro-Iranian Hezbollah, which is allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The war in Lebanon has caused the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people to Syria.