Displaced persons camps in northwest Syria have suffered various damages due to snowfalls and heavy rains that have hit the area over the past two days under very difficult humanitarian conditions. A number of displaced persons camps in northwestern Syria were damaged by heavy rains and snow that besieged several camps in the city of Afrin in rural Aleppo before it was destroyed. Civil defense teams are opening roads and checking displaced people, and camps for displaced persons in Idlib were also severely affected.
Heavy rain winds tore down some tents, not to mention cut the roads leading to them, and mud puddles formed towards the center of the tents and heavy rains rushed towards the center of the tents, according to the footage, which drew much sympathy from the activists. The residents of these tents complained that their only shelter was flooded and that they were forced to stay outdoors with their children, demanding urgent investigation into their situation, according to videos documented by the activists.
The Syrian Civil Defense released video clips of its volunteers during the evening hours as they worked clearing roads and shoveling snow. Civil Defense stated that “5 tents were completely damaged and more than 50 tents were partially damaged in camps in northwestern Syria as a result of rainwater seeping into them and being surrounded by water as a result of a downpour.”
At the same time, the “Syria Response Coordinators” announced in a publication that 190 families became homeless in camps in northwestern Syria due to rains.
The hashtag “mud camps” appeared in activist and Twitter conversations via digital media after heavy rains in Idlib province over the past few hours flooded many displaced persons’ tents in camps in northern Syria. Activists sought to document the suffering and tragedy of families living in tents without the necessities of life in light of the lack of humanitarian aid through video clips they shared on platforms. Some of them published scenes of the flooding of the camps, expressing their sadness and sympathy for the pain and oppression that comes with displaced families. Widely shared footage shows canvas tents sinking, in which stranded families shelter under their roofs in Idlib and its countryside.
Millions of Syrians spend the winter in these tents this year, forced to flee due to the ongoing war and the bombing of their towns and villages. Displaced persons are in difficult conditions due to the inability to provide heating facilities. The Syrian Response Coordinators team believes that civilians are facing very poor humanitarian conditions in northwest Syria in light of the inability of organizations operating in the region to provide the necessary support, as the population’s ability has become limited between providing food or heating materials. for this year. And due to conditions of poverty, many have come to rely on what they collect from balls, plastic materials, or even olive tree branches, which they light to keep warm. Levels of concern are rising among several organizations over the continued inability to fund humanitarian operations in light of the difficult humanitarian conditions facing the population in northwestern Syria. It is noteworthy that – according to the statistics of the organization “Syria Response Coordinators”, more than one million 800 thousand displaced people, including about one million children, live in 1633 camps in northwestern Syria, and they suffer from difficult humanitarian conditions, combined with a significant drop in temperature .
