2,000 displaced families in Sweida need shelters 

Ashraf Munzer, director of displacement shelters in Sweida, warned that the crisis is worsening in the city center and surrounding countryside, with seven schools already being used to accommodate displaced families and no longer able to receive any more people.

The residents were forcibly displaced following the military escalation that swept through the city and its countryside in July of this year, when violent clashes erupted between the Syrian transitional government forces and affiliated groups on one side, and the Druze National Guard forces on the other. The fighting left more than 2,000 people dead and hundreds abducted.

Munzer revealed to local media that more than 1,400 displaced families are currently living outside schools and still searching for shelter, while the total number of families in need of housing across Sweida exceeds 2,000.

Schools in Sweida continue to serve as temporary shelters for displaced people, resulting in the suspension of classes in several of them.

The local relief committee said it had relocated displaced families from six schools to the courthouse building, which has now also reached full capacity.

According to the Displacement Committee in Sweida, the committee receives over 15 new requests daily from families who have lost their homes and are living under dire humanitarian conditions, emphasizing that available resources are extremely limited.

The committee also reported that it faces growing difficulties in accommodating additional displaced families within government institutions, as officials in some of these institutions continue to reject the committee’s requests.

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