Published TUESDAY August 20, 2024: 'FORSAKEN SYRIA' by ZUMA Partner agency dpa photo-journalist Anas Alkharboutli: In Syria, the conflict continues unabated after more than 13 years of fighting. In 2024, it remains one of the world's largest displacement crises. Almost half of the country's internally displaced reside in the north-west of the country alone. Years of crisis have upended the lives of children and their families across the Syrian Arab Republic, leaving 15.3 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, including 7 million children. Since 2014, over 12,700 civilians in north-west Syria alone have been killed by hostilities. The 2023 Syria-Turkiye earthquakes further deepened the suffering, claiming the lives of at least 4,500 people in north west Syria, including over 100 aid workers. Today over 80 per cent of the population in north west Syria, rely on humanitarian assistance to meet their most basic needs. Welcome to 'FORSAKEN SYRIA'
© zReportage.com Issue #951 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY August 20, 2024: 'FORSAKEN SYRIA' by ZUMA Partner agency dpa photo-journalist Anas Alkharboutli: In Syria, the conflict continues unabated after more than 13 years of fighting. In 2024, it remains one of the world's largest displacement crises. Almost half of the country's internally displaced reside in the north-west of the country alone. Years of crisis have upended the lives of children and their families across the Syrian Arab Republic, leaving 15.3 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, including 7 million children. Since 2014, over 12,700 civilians in north-west Syria alone have been killed by hostilities. The 2023 Syria-Turkiye earthquakes further deepened the suffering, claiming the lives of at least 4,500 people in north west Syria, including over 100 aid workers. Today over 80 per cent of the population in north west Syria, rely on humanitarian assistance to meet their most basic needs. Welcome to 'FORSAKEN SYRIA'
Baby MARWAN SHAHEN, 7 months old, suffers from severe malnutrition. Residents in the camps in northwestern Syria are enduring dire humanitarian conditions due to a lack of funding, which has led to the cessation of food basket distributions in most camps and an increase in malnutrition cases in 2024 compared to previous years.
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Boiled pasta is the daily meal for the family of Marwan Shahen. People in the camps in northwestern Syria are enduring severe humanitarian conditions due to a funding shortfall, which has led to the cessation of food basket distributions in most camps and an increase in malnutrition cases in 2024 compared to previous years. According to an OCHA report, 50% of health facilities will stop functioning completely or partially by December, and the number of people suffering from food insecurity has reached 3.6 million.
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7-month-old MARWAN SHAHEN being carried by his sister in a camp for the displaced in the town of Atimah. The residents of the camps in northwestern Syria are enduring difficult humanitarian conditions with an increase in malnutrition cases.
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A view of the displaced camps on the Syrian-Turkish border in the town of Atimah, where residents in the camps are enduring severe humanitarian conditions due to a funding shortfall, leading to the cessation of food basket distributions and a rise in malnutrition cases.
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Syrian child KASURI ALMAIDI, 4 years old, shows a reaction when he hears sound for the first time after he underwent an ear helix transplant at the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) Hospital in Idlib.
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A child suffering from severe malnutrition and other diseases in the intensive care unit at HIHFAD Hospital in the town of Atimah. Residents of camps in northwestern Syria face dire humanitarian conditions due to a lack of funding, leading a rise in malnutrition cases, with the number of people suffering from food insecurity estimated to be 3.6 million.
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A baby receives phototherapy treatment in the incubator and neonatal care department at HIHFAD Hospital in the town of Atimah.
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Baby MARWAN SHAHEN, 7 months, suffers from severe malnutrition. Residents of camps in northwestern Syria face dire humanitarian conditions due to a lack of funding, leading to the cessation of food basket distributions and an increase in malnutrition cases.
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Healthcare workers from the UOSSM (Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations) conduct malnutrition checks on children in camps in northwest Syria. According to an OCHA report, 50 percent of health facilities will cease operating completely or partially by December, due to insufficient funding.
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Healthcare workers from the UOSSM (Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations) conduct malnutrition checks on children in camps in northwest Syria. 50 percent of health facilities will cease operating completely or partially by December, and the number of people suffering from food insecurity has reached 3.6 million.
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A Syrian worker weaves carpets on a handloom machine. The town of Ariha is well-known for its handloom textile production. Looming is considered one of the traditional handicrafts that has survived despite the harsh economic conditions that Syrians have suffered due to the conflict.
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Walking through the shell of a building, fighters from the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army conduct a patrol on the contact lines with the Syrian regime in Aleppo.
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Standing next to a bullet ridden wall, fighters from the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army conduct a patrol on the contact lines with the Syrian regime in Aleppo.
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Peering from the concrete shell of a building, fighters from the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army conduct a patrol on the contact lines with the Syrian regime in Aleppo.
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Children run next to a destroyed building, which was damaged as a result of the war in the town of Tadef in Aleppo. After more than a decade of conflict, children continue to pay the heaviest price.
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Children play in the middle of the street in the town of Tadef in Aleppo. Since retaking eastern Aleppo in late 2016, regime forces and militias have met only limited, sporadic resistance from the population.
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A child stands next to pigeons in the town of Tadef in Aleppo. Thirteen years of crisis have upended the lives of children and their families across the Syrian Arab Republic, leaving 15.3 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, including 7 million children.
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YOUSEF AL-MOHAMMED, 35 years old, raises birds as a hobby on the roof of his house, which was damaged as a result of the war in the town of Tadef in Aleppo.
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YOUSEF AL-MOHAMMED, 35 years old, smokes shisha with his friend on the roof of his house, which was damaged as a result of the war in the town of Tadef in Aleppo.
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HASAN HAMZA, 68, works at his workshop fixing an Oud instrument. A musician himself, Hamza can craft the Middle Eastern stringed instrument in a month, being the only Oud maker in Al-Bab. The oud is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument.
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A relative of the child, FARIDA HAMAMI, mourns near her body after she was killed following a missile strike by the Syrian regime that targeted the town of Sarmin in Idlib.
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Members of the United Nations humanitarian delegation visit those injured as a result of bombings at Al-Shami Hospital. During the Syrian Civil War, Ariha was the scene of fighting between government and rebel forces. The city was retaken by the government on 11 August 2012.
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A Syrian worker harvests roses, known as 'Damask' roses, in a rose field in Idlib Governorate. The flowers of the damask rose (Rosa damascena) and several other species are the source of attar of roses used in perfumes.
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Syrian youngsters leap into the coolwaters of an irrigation canal to escape the blazing Syrian summer heat.
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