IDP camp in Raqqa not receive support for 3 months

RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – Al-Mahmoudli camp has not received support for over three months, negatively and significantly affecting the IDPs, an official from Tabqa in the countryside of Raqqa, northern Syria, told North Press.

The camp, run by Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), stopped receiving support after the latter closed a local association that partnered with the World Food Program (WFP) organization due to violations.

Amal al-Issa, co-chair of the Social Affairs and Labor Board in Tabqa, told North Press that the support provided by the United Nations to the al-Mahmoudli camp had been suspended for three months.

On April 30, the Humanitarian Affairs Offices of the AANES closed the al-Mawada Association in northeast Syria for violating NGO work requirements and not abiding by the regulations and due to multiple complaints against it.

According to al-Issa, the WFP did not assign a replacement for the closed association that provided food parcels for IDPs despite the bad living conditions of the IDPs in the camps, as they have not received their parcels for three months.

The camp holds 1,814 families with 9,184 individuals, mostly from the countryside and cities of Aleppo, Homs, Hama, and Deir ez-Zor, which are controlled by the Syrian government forces.

The IDPs in the al-Mahmoudli camp suffer from dire living and humanitarian conditions, according to the administration of the camp.

The official noted that the AANES, in these circumstances, is unable to “give assistance to IDPs and provides very little support .”

Reporting by Fatima Khaled