Humanitarian groups in northeastern Syria scramble to provide aid to hundreds of thousands of people as rapidly shifting battle lines make it increasingly difficult to reach them.
A Syrian woman who is newly displaced by the Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria, carries her son upon her arrival at the Bardarash camp, north of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. The camp used to host Iraqis displaced from Mosul during the fight against the Islamic State group and was closed two years ago. The U.N. says more around 160,000 Syrians have been displaced since the Turkish operation started last week, most of them internally in Syria.
Before the offensive, a camp in the northern town of Ein Eissa held an estimated 12,000 displaced people, including around 1,000 wives and widows of Islamic State fighters and their children. But rioting broke out as Turkish-led forces closed in over the weekend, leading to the escape of hundreds of Islamic State supporters.
“Where can go except here?” said Omar Boobe Hose, a refugee from the northern Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn, which has seen heavy fighting. “We can’t go to Turkey, because they are our enemy, and the other side is also our enemy, the Syrian side. Where can we go? We have only here. There are no other places for Kurds.”
It said an apparent airstrike hit a “trauma stabilization point” run by a local organization and that two of that group’s ambulances were damaged despite being clearly marked. It said the local group’s ambulances get fired upon every time they approach Ras al-Ayn, preventing them from reaching the town.
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