{"id":4739,"date":"2018-02-23T11:21:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T03:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2018-02-23T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T03:24:50","slug":"news-update-syria-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/news-update-syria-2\/","title":{"rendered":"News Update | Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022 Over the last few weeks, a number of military offensives have further worsened the humanitarian situation across Syria<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022 Heavy bombardment in southern and south-eastern rural Idleb has caused casualties and displacement amongst civilians, as well as severe infrastructural damage<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022 Between 15 December and 3 February, the Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) Cluster tracked 325,443 displacements (some may be secondary displacements) in north-western Syria- mainly towards Dana, Salqin, Kafr Nobol, Ariha and Atareb sub-districts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022 On 20th January, the Turkish army launched a military offensive in the Afrin district of Aleppo; up to 30,000 people are reported to be displaced within Afrin (ACAPS)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022 About 400,000 people have been living under a government-imposed siege in Eastern Ghouta, an opposition-held area east of the Syrian capital, since 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022 Since 18th February, an escalation in airstrikes in Eastern Ghouta has aggravated the humanitarian situation, and resulted in the deaths of at least 250 civilians (BBC). More than 50 children were among the dead, about 1,200 people were injured . The situation in Eastern Ghouta is very chaotic. The primary information is received from IR Syria implementing partners in Ghouta as well as secondary sources (media).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022 The IR Syria Team has been providing health and NFI assistance to affected IDPs in Idleb and Hama, has prepositioned winter NFI kits in Afrin, and in Eastern Ghouta, through local partners, has provided food, NFIs and fuel for heating to the affected population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pray for our brothers and sisters in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Over the last few weeks, a number of military offensives have further worsened the humanitarian situation across Syria \u2022 Heavy bombardment in southern and south-eastern rural Idleb has caused casualties and displacement amongst civilians, as well as severe infrastructural damage \u2022 Between 15 December and 3 February, the Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4747,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions\/4747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}