A man pulls up water from a well discovered beneath an empty home in Mahatah. He resettled his family in this house. An estimated 400,000 refugees fleeing the two-month-old Turkish military campaign have been displaced into a roughly 400 square kilometer area within Shahba Province in Northern Syria. Central to Shahba is the flashpoint town of Tall Ri’fat, where an estimated 75,000 refugees have settled into destroyed homes previously occupied by Islamic State militants. The surrounding villages now housing the displaced are littered with mines and IEDs leftover from the conflict. Tens of thou
A man pulls up water from a well discovered beneath an empty home in Mahatah. He resettled his family in this house. An estimated 400,000 refugees fleeing the two-month-old Turkish military campaign have been displaced into a roughly 400 square kilometer area within Shahba Province in Northern Syria. Central to Shahba is the flashpoint town of Tall Ri’fat, where an estimated 75,000 refugees have settled into destroyed homes previously occupied by Islamic State militants. The surrounding villages now housing the displaced are littered with mines and IEDs leftover from the conflict. Tens of thousands of refugees are sheltering in rural areas, sleeping in fields and cars, lacking basic sanitation, running water and electricity, with aid groups providing what little aid they can. With only two small clinic-size hospitals in the area, Red Crescent organizations are rapidly running out of medical supplies and are already unable to properly treat civilians, mostly children suffering from infections due to long treks through cold weather in the mountains. Families sleep rough or in half-destroyed houses littered with hidden explosives, after fleeing a months-long push by Turkish-backed Syrian rebels to claim the city of Afrin and the surrounding area – part of a wider Kurdish enclave of the same name.
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