"Number of newly displaced people in Idlib almost doubled over last weeks" - Emergency Relief Chief

Briefing on the humanitarian situation in Syria, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock reported that 27 medical facilities had been targeted in Idlib.

He said “it is appalling that these sites were hit in the first place. But hitting a facility whose coordinates were shared as part of the UN’s de-confliction system is simply intolerable. A number of partners now feel that supplying geographical coordinates to be given to the warring parties effectively paints a target on their backs.”

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