UN: Heatwave endangers lives of displaced Syrians

Alanbat - Sara Shqair

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned on Friday that a heat wave of 30-46 degrees Celsius is continuing to endanger lives, especially in northwestern Syria, where millions of people live in camps.

A one-year-old baby girl died on Thursday in a camp for displaced people in Idlib after her health deteriorated due to the heat, as her family lives in a tent in a camp hosting 860 people.

At least 165 tents in the camp lack proper thermal insulators to protect people from extreme weather conditions, the office said in a press release, which is why a plan launched by the United Nations and its partners is being implemented to relocate displaced people in northwest Syria from tents to dignified shelters.