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bdulwahab, 44, fled together with his wife and eight children from Sousa village as violence escalated, seeking safety at Al-Hole camp, northeastern Syria.
“This is the third time we are forced to flee our home. We had barely any medicine or food and violence was nearing our area,” says Abdulwahab.
“It took us 3 days to get to Al-Hole but our suffering is not over yet; we need new tents and warm clothes for our children. We don’t have enough blankets for all of us; my wife and I have given ours to our children, we stay up every night because of the cold”.Recent escalation in violence in Hajin, southeast of Deir-ez-Zor governorate, has forced over 800 families to flee their homes and seek safety at Al-Hole camp south of Hassakeh city, northeastern Syria.Children and their families fleeing for their lives had to endure a harsh displacement journey, sleeping out in the open with barely enough food and water and nothing to fend off the heavy rain and dropping temperatures.
Families were welcomed into tents in the reception area of Al-Hole camp. UNICEF immediately provided arriving children and families with much-needed health and nutrition services, while a UNICEF-supported case management team is working on reuniting 18 unaccompanied and separated children among the newly displaced, with their families.
UNICEF has also been supporting children and their families in Al-Hole camp through the provision of safe drinking water, hygiene, health and nutrition supplies and services, child protection activities and the implementation of the self-learning programme.
- Credits Delil Souleiman/UNICEF
- Themes Conflict
- Regions Middle East and North Africa Syria