United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lockock called on members of the UN Security Council to work to ensure an immediate cessation of hostilities in northern Syria.
Lockook said during a briefing at a Security Council session devoted to developments in the situation in northern Syria, that 1.8 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, and that civilians there are under siege and their conditions are dire because of the violent bombing.
Lococ urged relief organizations to have an opportunity to play their role in delivering humanitarian aid, adding that the economic situation is collapsing in northern Syria, and that the United Nations needs donor support.
About 359,000 civilians in Idlib - including 165,000 children - were displaced from their homes last month alone, while more than 60 hospitals have been bombed since May 2019.
The United Nations said last month that more than 235,000 people were displaced from northwestern Syria as a result of the military escalation, while local humanitarian relief organizations called on the international community to intervene immediately to protect civilians.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported in a statement that between December 12 and 25 last December, more than 235,000 people were displaced from northwestern Syria, noting that many of them had fled from the city of Maarat al-Numan and villages and towns in its vicinity, all of which had become "almost empty." From civilians. "
The population of Idlib Governorate is approximately four million, and it has 1150 camps for the displaced who came to it from other regions in Syria to escape the battles.