Damascus: More than 280,000 people have fled their homes due to the crisis in northwest Syria, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said.
“The recent escalation in the northwest has displaced 280,000+ people, adding to years of suffering. WFP is scaling up to provide food wherever families are, but we urgently need support to meet soaring needs,” the WFP said on X on Thursday.
The organisation added that it is expanding assistance to people affected by conflict in Syria by providing cooked food and emergency food rations. The WFP also continues to negotiate safe supply corridors to reach all those in need.
The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorist group (formerly known as the Nusra Front, banned in Russia) and a number of other armed groups launched a large-scale operation against the Syrian government on November 29, advancing from the north of the northwestern region of Idlib towards the cities of Aleppo and Hama.
A day later, Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, came under the complete control of the militants for the first time since the beginning of the conflict in the country in 2011.
The Syrian army command announced on December 1 that the advance of the terrorists in the region of Hama had been stopped and government troops had launched a counteroffensive, taking control of a number of settlements previously seized by militants.
