Syria .. The camps for the displaced are like swamps after being flooded with rain

In the last three days, torrential rains inundated the overcrowded refugee camps in northwestern Syria, turning them into huge swamps and exacerbating the suffering of thousands of their residents.

On Tuesday, the United Nations warned of "tragic conditions" in the "flooded" camps in and around Idlib.

An Agence France-Presse correspondent saw tents that entered the mud, and their inhabitants were busy removing water from them.

In the computer camp in the town of Maarat Misrin, displaced Mahmoud Al-Alaiwi (24 years), who lives with his family of ten, told France Presse, "There are no words that express five percent of the suffering we are living. For three days, we have been overwhelmed by water."

"We did not leave a humanitarian body, organization, or association unless we appealed to it. Only the civil defense teams responded to the call today and took the children out of the camp, after it became a large lake" in which the tents and its inhabitants were surrounded.

According to an AFP correspondent, displaced people have recovered their wet belongings from carpets, blankets and household utensils, while women are busy taking water out of the tents by traditional means.

And abroad, a bulldozer belonging to the civil defense teams, which is active in the areas controlled by the fighting factions, removed large quantities of mud left by the floods.

The displaced were deprived of sleep for several nights because their tents were damaged.

Abu Qasim, a father of eight, said, "The water entered the tents and people had been standing on their feet for three days."

The United Nations warned Tuesday that the deteriorating weather "may worsen the situation with snowfall and the temperature drop below three degrees Celsius in the coming days."

"At least 4,000 people in northwestern Syria have been severely affected by the rain and high winds that destroyed or damaged more than 800 tents," Mark Cutts, the UN Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, wrote Monday on Twitter.

The areas controlled by the fighting factions, headed by the Headquarters for the Liberation of Al-Sham in Idlib and its environs, host about three million people, half of whom are internally displaced people, distributed in more than a thousand camps along the borders between Idlib and Turkey.

They gradually fled their homes due to repeated attacks by the regime forces.

Syria has been witnessing a bloody conflict since 2011, which has killed more than 380,000 people, caused massive damage to the infrastructure, and led to the displacement and displacement of millions of people inside and outside the country.

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