Reports

KEY MESSAGES Between 3-17 October 2023, as reported by key informants (KIs): • Departures: 84,093 individuals departed from 58 assessed communities, of whom 59,533 went back (71%) to those communities in the same period • Arrivals: 55,157 individuals arrived…

From 2–7 October 2023, the Global Health Cluster conducted a mission to Gaziantep, Turkey, to strengthen accountability to affected populations (AAP) in the cross-border region of Syria. The main objective of the mission was to adapt…

Midwifery kits equip healthworkers providing care through earthquakes, civil conflict, the pandemic and more. By Brianna Newport On February 6, 2023, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck at 4:17 a.m. in southern Turkey and northern Syria. Many people were…

“Last winter, we had to use scraps of plastic and shoes for heating because there were no safe heating materials available,” says Ahmed Al-Mohammed, who lives in a camp for displaced people in Dana, in northwest…

SITUATION AT A GLANCE 15.3 MILLION: Estimated Population in Need of Humanitarian Assistance in Syria UN – February 2023 12.1 MILLION: Estimated Food-Insecure Population in Syria UN – May 2023 6.8 MILLION: Estimated Number of IDPs in Syria UN – December 2022 3…

Cologne. "We are currently witnessing an increase in airstrikes in the Idlib region in north-west Syria, the likes of which we have not seen for four years," says Lena Schellhammer, a spokesperson for Malteser International, regarding…

SITUATION AT GLANCE The UN resumed the cross-border transshipment of life-saving humanitarian aid to northwest Syria via the Bab al-Hawa border crossing point on September 19, dispatching nearly 50 trucks to Idlib Governorate from Türkiye from September…

HIGHLIGHTS More than 70 people have been killed, over a third of whom were children, and 349 others injured, following an escalation of hostilities that began on 5 October. Over 120,000 people have been displaced in two weeks…

The complex challenges created by the Syrian civil war are highly unlikely to be resolved in the next few years and will continue to affect aid operations in Syria. A changing geopolitical context is further complicating…

Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Syria 30 October 2023 As delivered Thank you, Mr. President In recent weeks, the world’s attention has been fixed on the crisis in Israel and OPT, and rightly so. But at…