Destruction in eastern Aleppo is ’beyond imagination’ - UN official

Destruction in eastern Aleppo is ’beyond imagination’ - UN official
United Nations representative of High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Syria, and the acting humanitarian co-ordinator in Aleppo, Sajjad Malik, has said that destruction he saw in the city of Aleppo is “beyond imagination”.

While UN agencies don’t have exact numbers, Malik estimated that some 1.5 million people are in Aleppo now, including 400,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs).

The UN official said that the weather is "extremely, bitterly cold," and the houses do not have any windows or doors. The ultimate priority is to keep people warm and fed, Malik added, pointing out that the UN is giving people mats, sleeping bags and plastic sheets to cover blown-out windows.

The UN and its partners are also providing around 20,000 people with hot meals – twice a day, and 40,000 with fresh-baked bread, according to Malik.

Malik stated that the level of destruction in Aleppo surpassed anything he had seen in conflict zones like Afghanistan and Somalia.

"Nothing would have prepared us to see the scale of destruction there, it’s beyond imagination," he said.

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