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MONDAY, JULY 04, 2022
Over 130,000 people displaced by fighting in northeastern Syria

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Reuters
13 October, 2019, 03:05 pm
Last modified: 13 October, 2019, 03:06 pm

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Over 130,000 people displaced by fighting in northeastern Syria

Turkey’s stated objective is to set up a “safe zone” inside Syria to resettle many of the 3.6 million Syrian war refugees it has been hosting

Reuters
13 October, 2019, 03:05 pm
Last modified: 13 October, 2019, 03:06 pm
A woman is taken out of a building after it was hit by mortar shells fired from Syria, in the Turkish border town of Akcakale in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, October 13, 2019/ Reuters
A woman is taken out of a building after it was hit by mortar shells fired from Syria, in the Turkish border town of Akcakale in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, October 13, 2019/ Reuters

More than 130,000 people have been displaced from rural areas around the northeast Syrian border towns of Tel Abyad and Ras al Ain as a result of fighting between Turkish-led forces and Kurdish militia, the United Nations said on Sunday.

In a statement, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said OCHA and other relief agencies estimated up to 400,000 civilians in the Syrian conflict zone may require aid and protection in the coming period.

Turkish forces targeted areas around two Syrian border towns with fresh shelling on Sunday, pressing on with their offensive against Kurdish militia for a fifth day in the face of fierce international opposition.

Turkey's stated objective is to set up a "safe zone" inside Syria to resettle many of the 3.6 million Syrian war refugees it has been hosting.

More and more displaced people were arriving at collection centers, and more than 400,000 were affected by a loss of running water supplies including 82,000 residents of two refugee camps in the region, OCHA said.

Public and private hospitals in Ras al Ain and Tel Abyad, the two main targets of the Turkish-led offensive, have been closed since Friday.

OCHA also said that a trauma stabilization south of Ras al Ain, set up to treat wounded from the conflict's front lines, was reported to have come under attack. There was no immediate confirmation of the report.

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