Syrians fleeing on a daily basis according to Red Cross

According to a survey by Red Cross, everyday, a number of Syrians are fleeing from the ravaged country

Syrian civilians have been forced to leave their homes in order to stay away from the clashes between the rebel forces and government troops.

It has become difficult for sick and wounded people to reach medical services. Food has become scarce according to the humanitarian agency. Red Cross is the only international organisation so far that has deployed aid workers in the distressed country.

According to ICRC, ‘non-international armed conflict’ has erupted in some areas.

“The ICRC has clearly said that in certain parts of the country at certain moments, it is a non-international armed conflict, which means that certain rules of international humanitarian law regarding the treatment of civilians and detainees must be applied,”
ICRC spokesman Hicham Hassan told a news briefing in Geneva.

“Currently the situation is extremely tense not only in Houla, not only in Hama, but in many, many places around the country,” he said, referring to sites of recent massacres of civilians.

The spokesman says that the clashes in rural Damascus, Hama, Idib and to some extent Aleppo are the examples of this conflict.

“This leads simply to the fact people are still being displaced on a daily basis,” Hassan said.

The organisation is working in collaboration with Syrian Arab Red Crescent and has provided medical supplies and food to just 400,000 of 1.5 million people who have been affected by the conflict directly or indirectly.

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Posted by Taimoor Tariq on Jun 8 2012. Filed under Middle East. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry