Syria's Humanitarian Crisis: Sectarian Violence and Mass Displacement

Humanitarian Situation in Syria

• ⚠️ Despite a ceasefire and a relative stabilization in Aleppo, the humanitarian crisis in Syria persists, with significant displacement and high needs.
• 🏠 Some families have begun returning to their neighborhoods, but delays are caused by poor services, security concerns, and unexploded ordnance.

Health Services Under Pressure

• 🏥 Health services, though gradually improving in access post-ceasefire, remain under immense pressure due to displaced health staff, increased demand, and damaged facilities.
• 💊 There is a critical need to strengthen primary healthcare services, provide essential medicine kits, and rehabilitate damaged health facilities.
• 🚐 Mobile clinic services are essential for reaching displaced and hard-to-access populations.

Scale of Displacement

• 📈 Recent escalations have caused large-scale displacement, with approximately 119,000 people remaining displaced and around 30,000 having returned home.
• 🏘️ The majority of displaced individuals are staying with host families in rural Aleppo, with a smaller proportion in collective shelters or temporary sites.

Critical Needs and Aid

• 💰 Cash assistance is vital for families to cover rent, food, heating, medicines, and transportation, especially during the winter season.
• 👕 There is a huge need for food and non-food items, including blankets, winter clothes, and hygiene supplies.
• 🧠 Psychological support and awareness of explosive hazards are crucial, particularly for children and families.

Challenges for Humanitarian Organizations

• 📉 Humanitarian organizations like Mehad face challenges including reduced humanitarian funding for Syria overall.
• 🤝 Despite personal displacement due to conflict, field and administrative staff show strong commitment, voluntarily continuing services in new areas under difficult conditions.
• 🌍 Mehad works alongside other organizations and UN agencies to identify priorities and provide essential medical consumables, with plans to expand mobile clinic services.