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World Vision condemns the attacks against nearly a dozen displaced persons camps in northwestern Syria

Archive – Displaced women carry a jerry can of water provided by MSF in northwest Syria – MSF/ABDURZAQ ALSHAMI – Archive

The NGO World Vision has condemned this Monday the attacks perpetrated by the Syrian government forces against several displaced persons camps in the province of Idlib, in the northwest of the country, and which have resulted in at least nine deaths and dozens of injuries.

In a statement, the organization has indicated that among the fatalities there is a woman and two children and has lamented the “tragic loss of life” due to the bombings.

Thus, he pointed out that the affected area includes more than twenty camps that have the support of various NGOs. “The latest information received by our teams on the ground indicates that at least 75 people have been injured, 63 shops have been destroyed and more than 2,100 families have been forced to move due to the violence,” the text reads.

World Vision has warned that conditions are already “extremely harsh in overcrowded camps where Syrian families continue to struggle to find decent shelter, access to clean water and ways to stay warm in the face of winter.”

In this sense, he stressed that the educational centers were closed at the time of the attacks, so no child was injured in these centers.

Johan Mooij, director of the NGO’s humanitarian response in Syria, has asserted that displaced people living in tents “should not be the target of anything other than humanitarian assistance.”

Thus, he has called on all the parties involved in the conflict to “fulfill their responsibilities under International Law and put an end to the violence against the civilian population.”

“Too often, these indiscriminate attacks result in loss of education for boys and girls, serious injury to victims and loss of life,” he said.

The National Coalition for the Opposition Forces and the Syrian Revolution has warned of the consequences of the escalation of violence against civilians in the country.

“The Bashar al Assad regime has carried out new bloody attacks against displaced civilians by shelling camps in rural western Idlib,” they warned in a brief note.

Likewise, he has warned that it is an “attack that constitutes a war crime” and has called for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to take “punitive measures against the perpetrators of these attacks” against the Syrian population.

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