The United Nations calls on the international community to do more to save the displaced in northern Syria

A UN official described the horrific conditions the displaced people are living in tents in northern Syria, and called on the international community to do more to move these people from the tents to a more secure and dignified temporary shelter.
According to the United Nations news website, in northeastern Syria, about a thousand tents were either completely collapsed or significantly damaged, due to heavy snowfall in some areas, as temperatures are dropping below zero degrees Celsius, causing the displacement of many civilians.
In a virtual briefing, the UN Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria crisis, Mark Cutts, told reporters in New York: “We are very concerned about the situation there, and as you know one of the most vulnerable populations in the world lives in that region.”
“During this very cold weather, we have already seen horrific scenes in the past few days,” he added.
Cutts called on the international community to do more and help get these people out of the tents to a safer and more dignified temporary shelter.
He pointed out that in recent days, humanitarian workers have been doing their best to clean the streets, bring mobile clinics to these people, repair or replace some damaged tents, and provide other relief items such as food, blankets and winter clothes, and other emergency aid.
Cutts said the United Nations appealed for more than $4 billion for all of Syria last year, but only got 45 percent of that, and the year before it received 58 percent of the funding it was hoping for.
“We already see that the humanitarian system globally is very overstretched at the moment, with major crises in countries like Afghanistan, Yemen, Ethiopia and South Sudan. In Syria people are suffering because of ten years of this war,” he said.