1-14 | At least 20 people were killed and 99 were injured when warplanes bombed a market in Azaz, northern Syria on 13 January, according to Médecins Sans Frontières. Twenty of the wounded, all of them civilians, were treated in an MSF medical facility.The attack on the market in Azaz, near the Turkish border, was particularly devastating as it came just two weeks after airstrikes hit the city’s health facilities, making it almost impossible for medical staff to cope with an emergency on this scale.
1-10 | In the north of Syria’s Idlib province, civilians are being made victims of a terror strategy carried out through intense and indiscriminate bombing, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.
1-10 | In the north of Syria’s Idlib province, civilians are being made victims of a terror strategy carried out through intense and indiscriminate bombing, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.
1-3 | MSF has had to drastically reduce its medical activities in Bangui airport, following two days of shooting close to MSF’s clinic at the airport which has resulted in two young children being killed and 40 wounded arriving at MSF’s clinic . MSF is now operating at the airport camp with a reduced emergency team, treating only the most severe cases and providing emergency referrals to other structures.
12-24 | The humanitarian situation in Syria continues to worsen as the war escalates and attacks against health facilities continue. Access to large parts of the country remains extremely difficult due to insecurity and heavy fighting, and more than two million people have been displaced. The number of Syrians seeking refuge in neighbouring countries is increasing but the humanitarian response in Lebanon and Iraq has so far been unable to meet their needs.