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Highlights

• Conflict has escalated significantly across Aleppo City, displacing and injuring scores of civilians

• No functioning hospitals in eastern Aleppo and medical supplies depleted

• Humanitarian and commercial food supplies exhausted in eastern Aleppo

• Indiscriminate shelling continues in western Aleppo

• Children in Idleb Governorate not sent to school, for fear of safety

• Humanitarian operations resume at the JordanSyria border

13.5 M People in Need

13.5 M Targeted (Jan – Dec 2016)

6.1 M Internally displaced

900,000 Newly internally displaced people Jan-June 2016

4.8 M Refugees in neighbouring countries

Situation Overview

Intensified ground fighting and indiscriminate aerial bombardment over the past few days in eastern Aleppo City have reportedly killed and injured scores of civilians and forced thousands to flee to other parts of the city. Since 24 November, hostilities intensified specifically in Aleppo’s north-eastern neighbourhoods (Masaken Hanano, Jabal AlBadro,

Al-Sheikh Najjar and Bustan Al-Basha), prompting the displacement of an estimated 31,500 people, most of whom appear to have move to be besieged neighbourhoods (Boustan Al-Qasir, Ansari and Saif Al-Dawleh). An estimated 8,500 people fled to the neighbourhood of Sheikh Maqsoud. Meanwhile, up to 18,000 people fled eastern Aleppo to western parts of the city. Among them, 8,000 people are accommodated in the Jibreen collective centre, another 3,000 in the neighbouring cotton factory, and the rest with family members. The situation is changing rapidly every day and displacement is expected to increase, should hostilities intensify and continue.

Destruction of medical facilities and depletion of medical supplies and equipment constitute the most pressing concern for civilians in eastern Aleppo. There are no functioning hospitals left, and official food stocks are practically exhausted. On 27 November, GoS forces reportedly took control of Sulaiman Al-Halabi water station. As per initial reports, the pumping station’s essential equipment is intact. The station can resume normal operations with UNICEF provided fuel supplies – an average of 20,000 liters per day – benefiting approximately 1.2 million people in western and parts of eastern Aleppo City. Meanwhile, the Bab Al-Nayrab pumping station is connected to the electricity grid, feeding few neighbourhoods in eastern Aleppo city.

Partners have reported very high numbers of airstrikes, artillery shells and striking eastern Aleppo city since 15 November. The White Helmets has reported that most of their equipment has been destroyed, all of their diesel fuel stocks consumed and almost all ambulances have stopped operating.
On 28 November, local education authorities affiliated to non-state armed groups (NSAGs), extended the suspension of classes until the end of this week.
In western Aleppo, between 14 and 30 November, 73 people were killed (including 21 women and 16 children) and 531 were wounded.