QABASIN, Syria: The Qatar Red Crescent and Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority inaugurated more than 1,000 new homes for displaced people in northern Syria on Tuesday, according to the Qatari organization.
Mohammad Salah Ibrahim of the Red Crescent said the Qatari-funded village, with 1,136 new homes, was “the largest village opened in northern Syria so far”.
The houses are in 143 two-story buildings in a village in Aleppo province, which Ibrahim said also has a 16-room health clinic, a school for 500 students, a mosque and shops.
More than half a million people have been killed and millions more displaced in Syria’s civil war, that started in 2011 with a crackdown on anti-government protests.
A deadly earthquake in February 2023 also killed about 6,000 people in the country and 50,000 people on the border with southern Turkey.
Qatar has funded several construction projects in northern Syria, and Turkey launched a project in May last year that involves building 240,000 new homes in 13 locations in an effort to rehouse one-third of the three million Syrians who have fled across the border.
