19/12/2024
๐ข *Syria Crisis: Lives at Risk as Conflict Escalates*
The conflict in Syria has intensified, displacing hundreds of thousands and putting *1.6 million people at immediate risk.* Essential services like hospitals, bakeries, and water supply have been suspended, leaving families in urgent need of help.
*The Humanitarian Crisis*
๐น 12.9 million people are food insecure, with over 3 million severely affected.
๐น Food prices have skyrocketed due to supply chain disruptions and panic buying.
๐น Families are selling assets, sending children to work, and even scavenging for food to survive.
*WFPโs Response in Syria*
โข This year, WFP has already assisted over 1 million people with lifesaving food aid across Syria.
โข In the past two weeks, WFP scaled up its operations, providing ready-to-eat rations, food baskets, and hot meals to nearly 70,000 displaced people in hard-hit areas, including Homs, Aleppo, Raqqa, and Al-Hasakah.
โข We are working tirelessly to negotiate safe supply corridors and continue targeted emergency food assistance.
๐ *Read more about our work in Syria and how you can help:*
๐ [https://www.wfp.org/emergencies/syria-emergency]
_Together, we can deliver hope and food to those who need it most._
More than half the population in Syria is facing food insecurity amid protracted conflict, with approximately 3 million people in the grip of severe hunger conditions.A desperate situation has been worsened as thousands of people flee into the country from war-torn Lebanon, with an estimated
