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The number of residents of southwestern Syria forced to flee their homes due to escalating two weeks of fighting has reached 270,000, said a United Nations (UN) spokesman in Jordan.
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Last week, the United Nations reported that 160,000 people had been displaced by fleeing heavy shelling and that most were staying in villages and areas near the Israeli and Jordanian borders. shows that the number of displaced people in southern Syria has exceeded 270,000, "Mohammad Hawari, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Jordan, told Reuters.
humanitarian crisis in the south-west caused by clashes that erupted after a Russian-backed army offensive to retake the southern rebels controlled by Syria
Jordan, which received more than half a year million Syrians displaced since the beginning of the war, said they would not open their borders to refugees
After a meeting with UN officials, the Jordanian minister of business Foreign Ayman Safadi told reporters Monday that aid shipments are pending authorization to be sent to Syria for the currency of their country.
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