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April 25, 2018

U.N. Warns of Impending Humanitarian Catastrophe in Idlib, Syria
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The United Nations is warning of an impending humanitarian catastrophe
in the Syrian province of Idlib, one of the last rebel-held territories
in Syria, which is also home to at least a million Syrian civilians who
have been displaced from other parts of the country. This is U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.

Filippo Grandi: "The fact remains that it's very difficult to get out of
the country, so people get internally displaced. So they are refugees in
their own country. And even those options are becoming less and less.
We've seen it in the most dramatic phase of the Ghouta offensive. So,
the country is becoming a trap, is becoming, in some places, a death
trap for civilians."



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