Highlights
The OpsFeed web-based innovative Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping application, is providing a multi-purpose real-time information platform for Syria operation data collection and analysis.
In July, WFP will commence with an airlift operation to bring much needed humanitarian assistance to Al Hassakeh governorate, where WFP last reached 242,00 in December of 2015.
Due to a terrorist attack at the north-eastern border of Jordan, WFP was forced to suspend food distributions temporarily and is reviewing options for reaching asylum seekers stranded at the Berm
In numbers
- 6.6 million IDPs inside Syria
- 4.8 million Refugees in the Region*
- 5,806,148 Assisted in Syria and the Region in June
Funding Update
- WFP’s operation inside Syria and the five neigh-bouring countries has a net funding requirement of USD 11.4 million until the end of 2016.
Situation Update
Syria:
The Syrian Democratic Forces’ major offensive attacks in North-eastern Aleppo continued during June, seizing more than 100 villages and towns from ISIS.
In northern Aleppo governorate, heavy fighting along the Castello road, the only access route into eastern Aleppo intensified, putting civilians at risk and causing damage to infrastructure. At the beginning of July, heaving clashes intensified along the road. WFP is extremely concerned at the unfolding situation, as 300,000 people who remain inside eastern Aleppo city are now at risk of being completely cut off from humanitarian access.
Violence escalated in Idleb at the beginning of June, where around 15,000 individuals were displaced from the city, of which most were forced to seek refuge in northern Idleb governorate.