A disaster in the camps of northern Syria ... the rain floods hundreds of tents and fears of a storm

The "Syria Response Coordinators" team said that camps in the northwest of the country were severely damaged by the wave of bad weather in the area.

The coordinators said in a statement to them today, Monday: "The number of totally damaged tents has reached 278 tents, 513 tents partially, and extensive damage to roads exceeding 8 kilometers within the camps and their surroundings in a preliminary toll to limit the damage, while attempts are continuing to reach the damaged camps that are difficult to reach. To it as a result of bad roads leading to it and blocking the roads.

The director of Syria Response Coordinators, Muhammad Hallaj, said that the extent of the damage is much greater, but that the teams could not reach all the camps due to the weather conditions and blocking roads.

And what the north of Syria is witnessing, especially the Idlib governorate, was recently described by the United Nations as "the biggest disaster of the 21st century," warning of continued bombing operations by Assad's forces, which may force hundreds of newly displaced people to leave their homes and go to live in border camps. Which is considered safer compared to the areas located in the southern and eastern countryside, but those who live in it are currently facing displacement on the one hand, and death from the cold sometimes. "

In addition, the director of one of the camps in Idlib countryside said, "More than a hundred tents have collapsed and water entered, in a camp whose number of tents does not exceed 400 tents."

The camp director, who requested anonymity, added that the rain flooded the tents of dozens of families with all their contents, and hundreds of them spent the night under the trees and in the neighboring tents, and most of the residents spent the night laying the fortifications for fear of rainwater entering their tents.

The Syrian meteorology expects for today and tomorrow the continuation of rain, with stormy winds blowing from this evening, reaching a peak tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday, to be followed by a very cold air mass that records temperatures 4-6 below zero, and snowfall in most areas.

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