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Syria crisis: The ICRC is helping both people inside Syria, who are facing extremely difficult conditions because of the conflict, and the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq.

In cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, we are distributing food and other essentials, restoring water supplies, and supporting medical services.

Here's the latest news coming out of Syria:

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In numbers

In 2017 (in collaboration with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent)

  • 15 million
    people currently benefit from our water and engineering projects
  • 3.3 million
    people received food
  • 2.1 million
    people received hygiene kits, towels, mattresses, blankets and other household items
  • 1.4 million
    sick or wounded people received health care
More facts & figures
  • 13 million
    bread packs were distributed to over 200,000 people in Aleppo, Damascus, Deir Ezzor, Homs and Rural Damascus
  • 153,000
    people received winter clothes in Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Lattakia, Tartous and Rural Damascus
  • 30
    visits to central prisons were conducted by the ICRC

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