Humanitarian disaster looms over camps during winter

Sultan al-Kanj

Dec 30, 2020

Two girls sit inside their flooded tent at the flooded Mukhayyam al-Khair camp near the village of Kafr Uruq in the north of Idlib province on Dec. 17, 2020, housing Syrians displaced from Saraqib and Maaret al-Numan, and following heavy rain in the previous days. — OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)

IDLIB, Syria — On Nov. 25, the United Nations assessed the humanitarian situation in Syria, warning that the coming winter season will be “incredibly hard.”

Ramesh Rajasingham, the acting deputy UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, said, “More than 3 million people across Syria require assistance through what is likely to be an incredibly hard winter,” noting that those displaced remain “particularly vulnerable,” according to the official UN website.