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audio, stills, text and or video: Go to http://www.zReportage.com to see more - The Syrian Arab Red Crescent estimates 2.5 million people have been displaced within Syria, doubling the previous figure used by aid agencies. The UN now estimates that more than 60,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Assad began in March 2011. More than half a million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries, and more are fleeing every day, according to the UN. However, far more people have left their homes but stayed inside Syria, and humanitarian agencies have struggled to help them. This series of images shows families, normal people who are victims of war, their homes and livelihoods gone, they live in fear and are forced to live in abandoned houses or camps. Here are their stories.
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Dec. 8, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - HIND, left, looks through the balcony with the company of her 12-year-old daughter. Hind lives with her four children at an unfinished block the Free Syrian Army gave to them in Sakn al Shabaabi neighborhood, where many other displaced families live.
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Dec. 9, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - FATMAH, 33, center, lives with her 6 children in an abandoned flat in Sakn Al Shabaabi neighborhood. She used to live with her family in Karm al Tarab, but her building was partially destroyed by shelling last November.
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Nov 29, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - While playing outside, children find items to use at home, such as bags and a rug.
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Dec. 13, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - UM MOHAMMED, shares a meal with 4 of her 6 children, Nada 9, left, Khadija, 7, Hamza, 5, and Saad, 3, inside a tent at a camp for displaced Syrians in Atmeh, Idlib province. They lived in Aleppo's neighborhood Sukkari but a mortar landed on the roof of their building, forcing them to leave the city last November.
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Dec. 6, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - MAHMOUD, 57, prepares something to eat in a makeshift tent on the roof of an empty house where he lives with his wife and 13 children. They escaped from Homs last April.
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Dec. 6, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - MUSTAFA, 62, with his daughter NADIA, 13, and his son AHMED, 11, in the abandoned flat where they live in Tarekh el Baab. Mustafa and his family are from Homs, where he used to work as a mechanic and had a normal life. They were forced to leave eight months ago due shelling.
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Dec. 4, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - ABDU HASSAN, second from right, and his family live together with two more families in an abandoned building they found, which has no electricity or water.
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Dec. 6, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - MUSTAFA, 62, surveys the flat where he and his family were sleeping when a mortar hit last October.
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Dec. 12, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - NAWRAS, left, 40, with her family inside a tent at a camp for internally displaced Syrians in Kah village.
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Dec. 9, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - AISHA, 60, sits with her grandchildren, from left to right, HASSAN, 1, AISHA, 8, FATIMAH, 6, TAIBEENI, 3, MOHAMMED, 9. She lives with her husband, daughter and grandchildren in an empty and unfinished block that the Free Syrian Army gave to displaced families in Aleppo's Sakn al Shabaabi neighborhood.
© Pau Rigol/zReportage/ZUMA.
Dec. 12, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - AHMED, 38, right, and his family warm themselves at a camp for displaced Syrians in Kah, Idlib province, close to the Syrian-Turkish border. They escaped Marat al Nouman last November from the shelling.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - RABIAA holds a neighbor's daughter while watching through a window at an empty school in Al Katargi neighborhood, where 12 families live. Rabiaa and her husband escaped from the daily shelling in Sukkari and arrived last October.
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Dec. 5, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - AHMED, left, 27, lives with his 2-year-old son MOHAMMED, his daughter HASMA, 4, his niece SABAH, 13, and his wife in an underground floor of an empty school, where 11 more families live.
© Pau Rigol/zReportage/ZUMA.
Dec. 12, 2012 - Aleppo, Syria - RAGHAD, 10, left, poses with her family next to to the tent where they live now at a camp for displaced Syrians in Kah, Idlib province, close to the Turkish border. She lost her left leg last July when a mortar landed in front of her house while she was playing.
© Pau Rigol/zReportage/ZUMA.

Pau Rigol

Barcelona native PAU RIGOL cut his photojournalism teeth covering protests during Spain's 15-M Movement with many of his photos being published in a local weekly magazine, and in a book about the movement. He has also worked at the Spanish daily newspaper 'El Pais' doing several stories for the newspaper's Catalonia section. Pau went to Egypt in 2011 to collect material for his thesis on the Egyptian revolution, spending 5 months in Cairo covering the parliamentary election and the ongoing uprising. (Credit Image: © ZUMAPRESS.com):455


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