Idlib displacement worst since start of Syria war – U.N.

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'In just 10 weeks, since 1 December, some 690,000 people have been displaced from their homes in Idlib and surrounding areas,' says the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

INTERNALLY DISPLACED. A truck loaded with a family's belongings drives on the outskirts of the town of Deir Ballut as Syrians fleeing air strikes by pro-regime forces on rebel-held areas of the Idlib province head toward safer zones near the Turkish border, on February 6, 2020. File photo by Rami al Sayed/AFP

"This is, from our initial analysis, the largest number of people displaced in a single period since the Syrian crisis began almost 9 years ago," David Swanson said. Idlib province and its surroundings have been a dead end for many people previously displaced by Russian-backed regime operations against former rebel strongholds across the country., which already hosts more than 3 million refugees, fears a massive fresh influx from Syria and has kept its border closed to the newly displaced people in Idlib.

 

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