INCREASING NUMBER OF DISPLACED SYRIANS CONCENTRATED NEAR ALEPPO, DAMASCUS – UN REPORTS

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INCREASING NUMBER OF DISPLACED SYRIANS CONCENTRATED NEAR ALEPPO,
DAMASCUS – UN REPORTSNew York, May 7 2013 1:00PMSyrians forced by
the ongoing violence to leave their homes are often displaced more
than once and are concentrating around Aleppo and rural Damascus, the
United Nations emergency relief arm today said, as aid agencies faced
bureaucratic hurdles and insecurity trying to reach hard-to-access
areas.

Characterizing the situation as "large-scale and fluid," the spokesman
for the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),
Jens Laerke, told journalists in Geneva that over the past few months,
the number of internally displaced Syrians "has more than doubled,
from an estimated two million to 4.25 million people."

The highest concentration of internally-displaced Syrians – many of
whom have been forced to move multiple times – is in the northern city
of Aleppo, at 1.25 million people, followed by the rural area around
the capital Damascus, with 705,200, Mr. Laerke said.

The spokesperson added that of the approximate 6.8 million people
inside Syria in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, children make
up nearly half.

In her briefing to the UN Security Council last month,
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos said
OCHA and its aid partners faced a litany of hurdles to reach families
in need, including visas delayed for up to two months, a three-day
notice requirement imposed on all aid convoys and other bureaucratic
delays, dozens of road blocks, and a reduction of approved
non-Government Organizations (NGOs) from 110 to 29.

Recently OCHA was putting in more applications for convoys allowing
the agency to increasingly reach people in hard-to-access areas.

"From January to April, some 764,000 people have been reached through
UN-led relief convoys," Mr. Laerke said. "Out of 10 convoys which
crossed conflict lines, five targeted opposition-controlled areas,
while another five went to contested areas."

Yet, despite some progress, there was little movement on the
bureaucratic obstacles, as each convoy needed authorizations at
several levels. Mr. Laerke said OCHA "continued to work on that" with
the Syrian Government.

He said that the last convoy was on 25 April, when a UN inter-agency
convoy crossed conflict lines and reached Ter Mallah and Al Ghan in
Homs governorate to deliver food and essential non-food items for
24,000 people.

During her earlier briefing, Ms. Amos also told that Security Council
about OCHA's efforts to bring in supplies from across the Turkish
borders to help Syrian families in the north.

"So far, the Syrian Government had not agreed to cross-border
operations," Mr. Laerke said.

Meanwhile, the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) estimates that
approximately 235,000 Palestine refugees, almost half the Palestine
refugee community in Syria, have now been displaced.

Some 42,000 refugees have so far fled to Lebanon, while another 6,000
have left to Jordan. According to latest figures from UNRWA, more than
400,000 Palestine refugees currently require urgent humanitarian
assistance.

In addition, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned in the latest
humanitarian bulletin on Syria of the declining access to clean water
across the country, "Frequent power cuts, fuel shortages, damage to
infrastructure and disruption to water works has led to a significant
decline from 75 litres (pre-crisis) to about 25 litres per person
daily."

The UN agency has been distributing some water purification supplies
to offset the lack of waste-water treatment and chlorination available
in some areas.May 7 2013 1:00PM
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