Relief Children International said that more than 200,000 people have fled, in March, from the overcrowded refugee camps in northwestern Syria since the armistice in Idlib, the stronghold of the Syrian rebels.
Today, on the occasion of the International Refugee Day, corresponding to Saturday, the organization stated that due to the pandemic of the emerging corona virus, many fleeing children, who make up more than half of them children, are forced to return to their destroyed homes, adding that the narrow camps are not equipped to combat an outbreak of the new corona virus, Stressing the need for unrestricted entry of relief personnel into the area. It should be noted that Idlib, after nearly nine years of civil war in Syria, is the last major stronghold of the rebels, and is controlled by the "Tahrir al-Sham" organization, which is close to the "Al Qaeda" organization. There, too, allied militias are fighting with Turkey.
"They have fled intense battles, they live in unimaginable conditions, and they are now forced to flee the threat of a deadly virus," said Sonia Khosh, the organization's regional director in Syria.
Children are now forced to flee the threat of a deadly virus.