These are new photos from the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, which houses hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. The bad weather in the region has been making a terrible situation even more difficult.
We are not sure about the origin or photo credit for this heartbreaking photo, but it’s going around on the Syrian-related sites.
There really are no words…
“The world must act to save a generation of traumatized, isolated and suffering children from catastrophe. If we do not move quickly, this generation of innocents will become lasting casualties of war.” — UN
An excellent piece, front-page of the New York Times, about the exodus of refugees from Syria to Europe. Out of Syria, Into a European Maze.
Mehmet Zeki Çulcu, founder of Reha Protez & Ortez / Prosthetics and Orthotics Center, Istanbul, Turkey
MercyCorps has put together an excellent overview of the key facts about the Syrian refugee crisis.
A must read!
“With hopes for comprehensive peace talks in the immediate future nearly quashed, groups monitoring the ongoing crisis in Syria say more attention needs to be paid to the intractable dilemma of delivering humanitarian aid to the country.
More than nine million people currently require immediate assistance in Syria, the United Nations said recently, many of them suffering from a lack of food, water, and basic medical supplies as winter edges closer.
But aid workers cannot reach them, monitors say, largely because the Syrian government has restricted access…”
Read the full article in The Huffington Post.
Anger, anxiety, and depression are common among Syrian refugees living a precarious existence in refugee camps. Al Jazeera reports from Lebanon.
Palmyra Relief 