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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has recorded a total of 1,460 civilians killed between April 29 of last year through Jan. 5 of this year, due to military hostilities in the northwest of Syria, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday.
Of those killed, 417 were children and 289 were women, Dujarric said.
More than 312,000 people have been displaced since Dec. 2, 2019, mainly from southern Idlib, moving north, away from the hostilities, he added.
Most of the recently displaced people have moved to urban areas and camps for internally displaced people in northwestern Idlib. About 80 percent of the newly displaced are women and children, according to Dujarric.
The UN urges all parties, and those with influence over those parties, to ensure the protection of civilians, and to allow sustained, unhindered access by all humanitarian parties to provide life-saving assistance to all who need it, he stressed.
The Security Council recently failed to renew the mechanism for the cross-border humanitarian operations in Syria carried out by the United Nations. The operations will close by Jan. 10 if there is no re-authorization.
