Syria conflict: Humanitarian crisis in the region deepens
As the international community revises its estimates of the scale of the humanitarian needs with the Syria Humanitarian Assistance Response Plan launched Friday, 7 June 2013, in Geneva, new figures show that the number of refugees in Lebanon has now reached half a million – in a country with a population of just over 4 million.
With the continuous fighting and the increase in needs, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) appealed today for more than one billion US dollars to feed up to 7 million Syrians from now and until the end of the year.
These include 4 million people inside Syria and 2.7 million people in neighbouring countries in urgent need of assistance, making this WFP’s most challenging, complex and largest emergency worldwide.
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