The United Nations has announced that three million people are currently in need of assistance in Syria.
Approximately one million people have fled their homes in the Idlib province since December due to ongoing violence.
Hospitals and locations where the sick and wounded collect have been the intentional targets of multiple attacks. A board of inquiry has been set up by the UN to investigate why strikes are happening on hospitals which are under the protection of the Geneva Conventions.
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