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WHO Warns Of Dire Conditions, Deaths Of Children At Refugee Camp In Syria

More than 20,000 people, mostly women and children, have arrived at the Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria in just two months. The World Health Organization says aid workers are struggling to keep up.
Displaced Syrians gather inside a tent in the Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria in December.

At least 29 children and newborns have died over the past two months in or on their way to the Al-Hol refugee camp in northeastern Syria, the World Heath Organization says, as the camp struggles to deal with cold winter conditions and an influx of displaced

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