The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it continues, together with its partners, to coordinate with the Syrian government and to monitor developments in Aleppo city.
In a statement issued on Tuesday evening, 23 December, the office said that recent hostilities in the area had led to the shelling of several neighborhoods, triggering a new wave of displacement.
OCHA added that the World Health Organization (WHO) had dispatched emergency medical supplies to health actors as part of the response.
On 22 December, Aleppo city witnessed clashes between the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian army, around the al Ashrafiya and Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhoods in Aleppo city (northern Syria), with the impact extending to other neighborhoods.
At the time, Enab Baladi’s correspondent reported hearing gunfire and shelling in several neighborhoods, including the al-Jamilia neighborhood in the city center, along with heavy ambulance movements in various areas.
The Syrian Ministry of Health announced that shelling which targeted a residential area near al-Razi Hospital killed a young man and his mother, and injured eight civilians, including a boy and a girl, in addition to two Civil Defense members.
According to al-Ikhbariya, the final toll of casualties from the targeting of residential neighborhoods in Aleppo city by Asayish forces rose to four people killed and nine injured.
Calm returned to Aleppo city in parallel with a de-escalation, amid negotiations for a ceasefire, according to a military source who spoke to Enab Baladi.
The source indicated that the de-escalation aims to reach an agreement on a permanent ceasefire, and that if talks fail, the military operation will resume.
Two-thirds of Syrians need assistance
OCHA noted that humanitarian needs remain severe across Syria, with 16.5 million people still in need of assistance, representing nearly two-thirds of the population.
Explosive ordnance contamination continues to pose a major threat to Syrians, the statement added, pointing to the killing of 21 people and the injury of more than 60 others, half of them children, due to explosive remnants in November alone.
At the same time, 2.5 million children remain out of school, while 40 percent of school buildings are not fit for use.
The United Nations and its humanitarian partners have assisted more than three million people per month this year, despite what the statement described as limited humanitarian funding.
2.5 million returnees
The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria, Adam Abdelmoula, had previously said that around 16.5 million people in the country need humanitarian assistance, in addition to about 2.5 million returnees, both internally displaced people and refugees returning from abroad, many of whom have lost their homes as a result of the war.
During a press conference held on 9 September, shortly before the end of his mission, Abdelmoula reviewed the work of the United Nations in Syria, noting that the country is still facing a large-scale displacement crisis, with more than six million people living as internally displaced persons and more than six million others living as refugees around the world.
He revealed that around 24 percent of housing in Syria has been destroyed or damaged over the past years, at a time when the United Nations is suffering from a severe funding shortfall.
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