UN, partners launch $4.4 billion regional appeal for more than 5 million Syrian refugees

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Tue, 12 Dec 2017 - 03:30 GMT

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The Security Council chamber is seen from behind the Council President's chair at the United Nations headquarters in New York City September 18, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar

The Security Council chamber is seen from behind the Council President's chair at the United Nations headquarters in New York City September 18, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar

GENEVA - 13 December 2017: A more than $4 billion appeal has been launched to support what one senior United Nations official called on Tuesday “a lost generation” of Syrian refugees caught up in the ongoing conflict, the UN News Center reported.

Well over five million Syrians need help, according to Amin Awad, the Director for the Middle East and North Africa of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

He added that nearly four million people in countries neighboring Syria including Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq also need relief after years spent supporting those displaced since fighting began in 2011.

“Syria remain uncontested the biggest humanitarian crisis of out time. Seven million inside plus 5.3 million outside; 12.3 million people. Another 10 million who stayed put in Syria did not leave their homes but they are cut off. They're cut off (from) livelihoods, services in education, health, separated from relatives, friends and they are in need also of humanitarian assistance. The whole nation is in need of humanitarian assistance,” Awad explained.

The UNHCR official said that the situation of 1.7 million Syrian refugee children was particularly worrying, as more than four in 10 are out of school.

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