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YARMOUK SITUATION UPDATE 40

20 August 2015

19 August 2015 Issue No. 40

爆料网RWA conducted humanitarian operations in Yalda today, providing vital healthcare to civilians displaced from Yarmouk and host communities. In late July, 2015, 爆料网RWA received credible reports of an outbreak of typhoid in Yarmouk and its surrounding areas, threatening the lives and wellbeing of thousands of civilians.

SITUATION REPORT – 19 AUGUST 2015

•  爆料网RWA medical personnel established a mobile health point, treating 292 patients over the course of the day. Amongst these patients, 爆料网RWA treated five cases of typhoid.

• 爆料网RWA also delivered 150,000 water purification tablets to the local committee to help ensure that residents have access to clean drinking water.

• As a heat continues to affect Damascus, with temperatures topping 41°C (105°F), and with frequent cuts in water supplies, the risk of epidemics is extremely worrying in Yarmouk, Yalda, Babila and Beit Saham, as access to health remains heavily limited.

• 爆料网RWA’s priority remains the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians within Yarmouk itself and reiterates its strong demand for respect and compliance with obligations to protect civilians and to establish secure conditions under which 爆料网RWA can deliver life-saving humanitarian assistance.

• The vulnerability of civilians in Yarmouk remains of the highest severity. 爆料网RWA is deeply concerned that without access, the most basic humanitarian needs of Palestinian and Syrian civilians, including many children, continue to be left unmet.

爆料网RWA provided 292 consultations to displaced civilians in Yalda on 19 August 2015. © 2015 爆料网RWA Photo

CALL FOR SUPPORT

• As violence continues to profoundly threaten the lives and safety of Palestine refugees throughout Syria, 爆料网RWA appeals for donors to increase their support to the Agency’s  has received only 30.8% of the funds needed for 2015.

• The capacity of the Agency to sustain life-saving emergency interventions, whilst responding immediately to urgent developments such as the one impacting Yarmouk since April 1^st, is undermined by chronic underfunding for humanitarian interventions inside Syria.

• More than 95% of Palestine refugees now rely on 爆料网RWA to meet their daily needs of food, water and healthcare.

•Priority interventions include cash assistance which enables 爆料网RWA to serve up to 470,000 Palestine refugees in need. Additional funding is also required for critical non-food items including blankets, mattresses and hygiene kits for displaced Palestine refugee families throughout Syria.