For the thirty-third consecutive day, the city of Kobani remains under a total siege, standing as the only city in Syria subjected to a comprehensive closure of all roads leading to it, with entry and exit prohibited from all directions.
The number of besieged residents is estimated at approximately one million Kurds, who are facing acute shortages of essential supplies, foremost among them food, infant formula, medicines, and fuel. There is also a complete or near-complete blackout of telecommunications, internet services, and electricity, further deepening the city’s isolation and severely hindering the documentation of the humanitarian situation on the ground.
The health sector is experiencing a critical state of depletion. Hospitals are suffering from a severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies, alongside a lack of personnel and operational capacity. Deaths have been recorded among children and patients as a result of the inability to transfer them to medical facilities outside the city, in addition to the limited availability of treatment services locally.
In local markets, the prices of the few available goods have risen to unprecedented levels, while residents’ purchasing power has declined to its lowest point. Internally displaced families within the city are living under harsh humanitarian conditions, with increasing reliance on limited individual and community-based initiatives that are insufficient to meet the growing needs.
With roads remaining closed and the entry of supplies prevented, the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate at an accelerated pace, raising serious concerns of an imminent humanitarian catastrophe unless urgent humanitarian corridors are opened to allow the entry of aid and essential materials and to preserve what can still be saved.
Source: Documentation Center of Violations in Northern Syria
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