United Nations humanitarian officials have sounded an alarm over a humanitarian crisis in rebel-held northwestern Syria. They warned on Thursday that intense shelling by government forces displaced almost 70,000 people in recent weeks.
The Syrian government, backed by Russia, pounded the country’s northwest this month, especially after a drone attack targeted ain the heart of the government-held city of Homs. At least 89 officers and civilians were killed, making it one of the deadliest attack in the war-town nation in years.
“We’re at the most significant escalation of hostilities since 2019,” David Carden, the U.N. deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria, said after meeting with displaced Syrians living in temporary shelters “What they want above all is to return home to their homes, but right now they do not feel safe to do so.”Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militia targets in northern Syria after US downed Turkish armed droneThe vast majority of the 4.
Carden and other U.N. officials toured the encampments where millions of Syrians are staying. He was accompanied by Oliver Smith, senior operations coordinator the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR and Rosa Crestani, the head of the World Health Organization office in Gaziantep, Turkey.
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