- The number of fires in camps for the displaced in northwestern Syria has risen to 126 since the beginning of the year after three new fires broke out on Aug. 24 due to high temperatures inside the tents and a reliance on indoor cooking stoves.
- In another Facebook post on June 13, the Syria Response Coordination Group called on humanitarian organizations operating in the area to establish firefighting points within the camps and to provide them with personnel to train them on how to deal with fires in such a way as to avoid casualties.
- There is also a major deficit in humanitarian response, reaching 57.4% in the food security and livelihoods sector; 69.8% in the water and sanitation sector; 86.5% in the health and nutrition sector; 62.3% in the non-food resources sector; 58.2% in the shelter sector; 64% in the education sector; and 70.8% in the protection sector.
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