Syria Crisis: Menbij Situation Update No. 1 (as of 16 March 2017)

Highlights

• Over the past two weeks, fighting around Menbij has displaced over 60,000 people in two major displacement waves.

• From 27 - 28 February, fighting in the southwestern countryside of Menbij has displaced more than 35,000 people northwards, and again from 1 March onwards. An estimated 20,000 people were displaced from Maskana,
  Dayr Hafir and Al Khafsa to villages in the southwestern countryside of Menbij and to Menbij city itself.

• As of the beginning of March, 7,500 people were without proper shelter, sleeping in the open, and many IDPs lack food supplies and access to health and WASH facilities. Reports received since indicate much larger numbers of displaced in precarious conditions.

• Humanitarian organizations have dispatched Ready to Eat Rations, NFIs, shelter items, and hygiene kits and are facilitating water trucking to areas that received IDPs; they continue to monitor the situation on the ground and respond to emerging needs.