Heavy rains and snow storms besieged the displaced and deepened their suffering in the camps of northern Syria

The camps for the displaced in northwestern Syria have suffered varying damages due to the snow and heavy rains that hit the area during the past two days, under extremely difficult humanitarian conditions.

Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that a number of camps for the displaced in northwestern Syria were damaged due to the heavy rains, and that snow surrounded several camps in the city of Afrin in the countryside of Aleppo before the civil defense teams opened the roads and inspected the displaced people in them, and the camps for the displaced in Idlib were also severely damaged.

The winds of the rainstorms tore some tents, not to mention cutting off the roads leading to them, and mud puddles formed and torrential rains rushed towards the center of the tents, according to the footage, which received great sympathy from the activists.

The residents of those tents complained that their only shelter was flooded and that they had to stay in the open with their children, demanding that their situation be looked into quickly, according to the videos documented by the activists.

Every year, we must depict the suffering continuing!# Syria, rural camps # Idlib pic.twitter.com/TWv9ksvbfG

- Ammar Alzeer (@AmmarAlzeer) February 1, 2023

The Syrian Civil Defense published video clips of its volunteers during the evening hours, while they were working on opening roads and shoveling snow.

The Civil Defense said, "5 tents have been completely damaged, and more than 50 tents have been partially damaged in camps in northwestern Syria, as a result of rainwater leaking into them and being surrounded by water, as a result of the rainstorm."

Their night is cold and long, rain water besieges them, how will they sleep in it while their simple belongings are wet, and mud covers the land of the tents, the cold will quietly creep into the bodies of their children, this is the case of thousands of families in northwestern #Syria as the rain continues and snow begins to fall.#mud_camps#white_helmets pic. twitter.com/WmXdcSY0uY

- Syrian Civil Defense (@SyriaCivilDefe) February 1, 2023

While the "Syria Response Coordinators" announced in a publication that 190 families have become homeless in camps in northwestern Syria due to the rains.

Mud camps

The hashtag "mud camps" has emerged in the conversations of activists and tweeters via digital networks, after rainstorms in Idlib governorate, during the past few hours, caused the flooding of many tents of the displaced in the camps of northern Syria.

Activists were keen to document the suffering and tragedy of families living in tents that lack the most basic necessities of living in light of the scarcity of humanitarian aid, through video clips that they shared on the platforms.

A number of them published scenes of the flooding of the camps, expressing their sadness and sympathy for the pain and oppression that accompanies the displaced families.

5 tents were completely damaged, and more than 50 tents were partially damaged in camps in northwestern Syria, as a result of rainwater leaking into them and besieging them with water, as a result of the rainstorm. Today, Wednesday, February 1, our teams are working to open channels to drain water in addition to shoveling snow in the northern countryside of #Afrin #Aleppo.# The White Helmets pic.twitter.com/an4Bp9rkfh

- Syrian Civil Defense (@SyriaCivilDefe) February 1, 2023

The footage, which enjoyed wide participation, showed the sinking of the canvas tents, which shelter stranded families under their roofs in Idlib and its countryside.

Millions of Syrians are receiving the winter this year inside these tents, after they were forced to flee as a result of the ongoing war and the bombing of their towns and villages.

The displaced face difficult conditions, amid the inability to secure means of heating.

The "Syria Response Coordinators" team considered that civilians are facing very poor humanitarian conditions in northwestern Syria, in light of the inability of organizations operating in the region to provide the necessary support, as the population's options have become limited between securing food or heating materials for this year.

And due to the conditions of poverty, many have come to rely on what they collect from balls, plastic materials, or even olive tree branches, which they light to keep warm.

The level of concern among several organizations is increasing over the continued inability to fund humanitarian operations, in light of the difficult humanitarian conditions faced by the population in northwestern Syria.

It is noteworthy that - according to the statistics of the "Syria Response Coordinators" organization, more than one million and 800 thousand displaced people, including about one million children, live in 1,633 camps in northwestern Syria, and they suffer from difficult humanitarian conditions in conjunction with a significant drop in temperature.