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Over 1.9 million internally displaced persons and close to 1.3 million Syrian refugees have returned to their areas of origin or other locations across Syria. Around 57 per cent of the returnees are children.
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Children’s safety and well-being are at grave risk from Explosive ordnance (EO). 870 incidents have claimed 167 children's lives and injured 383 since 8 December 2024.
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Economic hardships, prolonged drought-like conditions, and sporadic escalations—combined with high returnee influx—are overstretching fragile systems with constrained access to basic services and livelihood.
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Since January 2025, UNICEF and partners have provided essential services and supplies to over 10 million people (52 per cent children) through interventions in health, education, WASH, nutrition, child protection, social protection and social and behavioural change.
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UNICEF’s Syria Humanitarian Appeal is only 36 per cent funded—continued support is essential to deliver life-saving and protection services for vulnerable children and women.