(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime offensive pushed 1,294,558 people in 2019 from their homes in a region of three million people, the Syria Response Coordinators group said Saturday.
The relief group sent a humanitarian plea to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the President of the Security Council, and members of diplomatic missions in the Security Council, urging to stop the assault on northern Syria.
In the latest round of violence in Syria's nearly nine-year-old war, Russian-backed forces have upped their deadly bombardment of the northwestern opposition bastion of Idlib in recent weeks.
The United Nations has warned of the growing risk of a humanitarian catastrophe in the Idlib region, which lies along the Turkish border.
The mass movement of people has seen public buildings such as mosques, garages, wedding halls and schools turned into shelters, UN humanitarian agency OCHA says.
Regime ally Russia announced a ceasefire for Idlib in late August after months of deadly Russian and regime bombardment that killed around 1,000 civilians.
But sporadic clashes and bombardment persisted throughout the autumn before a spike in violence in the past month, the Observatory says.
In total 11,215 people including more than 1,000 children were killed during the war last year, although it was the least deadly year on record since the beginning of the conflict.
Almost nine years of civil war in Syria has left more than 380,000 people dead including over 115,000 civilians, a war monitor said in a new toll Saturday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of sources across the country, said they included around 22,000 children and more than 13,000 women.
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