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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.
In numbers
In 2017 (in collaboration with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent)
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15 millionpeople currently benefit from our water and engineering projects
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3.3 millionpeople received food
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2.1 millionpeople received hygiene kits, towels, mattresses, blankets and other household items
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1.4 millionsick or wounded people received health care
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13 millionbread packs were distributed to over 200,000 people in Aleppo, Damascus, Deir Ezzor, Homs and Rural Damascus
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153,000people received winter clothes in Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Lattakia, Tartous and Rural Damascus
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30visits to central prisons were conducted by the ICRC
Latest Tweets
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Can you imagine how will it be if the #hospital in your city operated only during daylight?? That is a scary scena… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Civilians in #Idlib are suffering immensely and here is just a snippet of what they face daily in terms of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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#Idlib can NOT lose another #hospital or clinic because thousands of civilians will go through even greater sufferi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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If the hospital, the bakery, the school, the houses, were attacked, #civilians will have no other option but to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Even war has limits! This is our one and only message for fighting parties in #Idlib. pic.twitter.com/oLTnYg0GOS
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Why the situation in #Idlib matters? Because 800,000 #civilians are expected to face the impossible question about… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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This street leads to the old bazaar in #Aleppo #Syria. Today parts of it still remain in ruins. Cultural property m… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Today is The International Day of the Disappeared When a relative goes missing, their family suffers enormous psy… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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While life returns to #EasternGhouta #Syria still much needs to be done to support people in need of schools, hospi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Abu Mazen lost his hand, but not his capacity to dream. Today he takes a corner in the streets of #Damascus,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…