Mercy Corps Calls for Immediate Ceasefire in NW Syria as Lives Hang in Balance
February 27, 2020
February 27, 2020
PORTLAND, Oregon, Feb. 27 -- The Mercy Corps issued the following statement by Interim CEO Beth de Hamel:
Mercy Corps has worked in Syria during the entirety of the nine year conflict - as well as in every major global conflict over the past three decades. And yet, what we are seeing unfold in Idlib and Western Aleppo is unprecedented. The human suffering is catastrophic.
"We call on all parties to the conflict to reach an immediate ceasefire, to end the fighting i . . .
Mercy Corps has worked in Syria during the entirety of the nine year conflict - as well as in every major global conflict over the past three decades. And yet, what we are seeing unfold in Idlib and Western Aleppo is unprecedented. The human suffering is catastrophic.
"We call on all parties to the conflict to reach an immediate ceasefire, to end the fighting i . . .