A United Nations relief official on February 27 said that civilians remain extremely vulnerable in northeast Syria, while an estimated 1.9 million people require humanitarian assistance.
The United Nations Security Council holds a
meeting on the situation in Syria, at the UN headquarters in New York, on Feb.
27, 2020. (Source: Xinhua)
Among these people, the majority, 1.34 million people, are in
areas outside of Syrian Government control, Ursula Mueller, UN assistant
secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the Security Council.
"Over the past weeks,
renewed hostilities in and around Tal Tamer district have displaced an
additional 1,600 civilians to Qamishli, while another 800 people have arrived
in Ar-Raqqa," Mueller added. This adds to the hundreds of thousands of people
already displaced in northeast Syria.
Although the United Nations
and its humanitarian partners scaled up the response in the northeast in the
second half of 2019, Mueller warned that significant gaps remained, especially
after the adoption of Security Council resolution 2504 and the removal of Al
Ramtha (Syria/Jordan border) and Al Yarubiyah (Iraq/Syria border) as authorized
crossing points.
Mueller added if viable
alternatives to Al Yarubiah are not found for medical items, the gap between
the humanitarian response and humanitarian needs will increase further.
"The first shortages are
expected already by March for medical facilities providing reproductive health
care, that were previously supported by cross-border operations," Mueller
said, adding that "a larger gap in medical items could occur by May."
Source: Xinhua
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