UN: Over 150,000 displaced persons are impacted by the blizzard in northern Syria

UN : humanitarians reported that a snowfall in northern Syria on December 31 damaged or destroyed 5,000 shelters and affected over 150,000 people at 90 displaced locations.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), two newborns died as a result of the storm’s severe cold, according to its partners in the governorates of Aleppo, Idlib, and Al-Hasakah.

According to OCHA, thousands of individuals were exposed to subfreezing conditions, putting them at risk for respiratory illnesses and hypothermia. Since the blizzard, almost 10,000 displaced persons in camps have received fuel and stoves from humanitarians.

According to OCHA, $112 million is required by the UN and its partners for life-saving winter help between September 2025 and March 2026. According to the Xinhua news agency, just $29 million has been collected so far, leaving a 74% financing imbalance.

Syria’s winters may be quite difficult. People all around the nation are put in severe and sometimes perilous circumstances by the combination of very cold winds, torrential rain, and intermittent snowfall.

Families that are displaced are often the most impacted. Most displaced families can only afford to construct temporary, brittle buildings as homes due to the unstable economic conditions they live in. These structures are often constructed from cardboard, scrap wood, or asphalt on bare ground, making their occupants susceptible to the severe winter weather in Syria. A home might be destroyed by the wind or inundated by snow or rain nearly at any moment.

Camp inhabitants may have to relocate and rebuild at the most challenging time of the year if extreme weather completely destroys the delicate buildings. As a result, Syrians in the north now look forward to winter with caution and terror.

The health of displaced families may be severely impacted by the weather and a lack of shelter.