The Syrian Civil Defense said that the number of displaced camps that have been damaged by rain and snow in northwestern Syria has risen to 225, indicating that the number of families who are now out in the open has reached 3,200.
He added that he counted 400 tents that were completely damaged, and more than 2,900 tents partially damaged as rainwater entered them.
The Civil Defense explained that the number of families who are out in the open is likely to rise due to the nature of the area and the lack of preventive means from floods, such as earth mounds and drainage channels.
Al-Jazeera correspondent Suhaib Al-Khalaf - from one of the camps in Idlib countryside - said that the humanitarian conditions are bad, because those displaced people whose tents were destroyed have become homeless, in light of the severe weakness of humanitarian organizations' response to them.
Winter exacerbates the suffering of displaced Syrians (Anatolia)
Frost wave
And the reporter indicated that this comes with the advent of a frost wave that followed rainy days, as temperatures reached below zero at night, indicating that the displaced are in urgent need of aid, heating materials and tents equipped with insulators to protect them from rain, cold and snow.
During the past years, millions of civilians have been displaced after the Syrian regime bombed their cities to areas near the Turkish-Syrian border in Idlib, where hundreds of thousands of families were forced to live in tents after they were unable to secure homes to shelter them.
The aforementioned camps suffer from a lack of infrastructure, as well as turning into puddles of mud during the winter season, as the tents begin to leak rainwater after their fabrics are worn out due to the summer heat.