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More than 13 million Syrians need aid and protection

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Monday that the people fled their homes in Aleppo, Hama and Idlib governorates between October 5 and 22.

Last week, an UN official in Geneva said that around 35,000 people are reported to have been displaced from just two villages on the southwestern outskirts of Aleppo city. "They mainly need tents, basic household items, food and water and sanitation services".

A map in the report showed how displaced people were fleeing north from the offensive towards the Turkish border crossing at Bab al-Hawa and to Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria. Upwards of 120,000 Syrians were displaced in October in the center of the area from which Syrian government forces, aided by Russian airstrikes, are launching a ground offensive, the United Nations said Monday.

Moscow says it is targeting the Islamic State group and other "terrorists", but Syrian rebels and their backers say Russian strikes have focused on moderate and Islamist fighters, not jihadists. However, the militant groups have frequently turned on each other and engaged in infighting in a power struggle and over resources.

O'Brien said more than 50 percent of the 680,000 arrivals by sea in the Mediterranean this year are Syrians, adding that these people "have a right to seek asylum without any form of discrimination". But a lot of strikes have targeted Syrian rebels in areas where the extremist group is not present and have hit civilians.

"This is a cry for help", he says.

The council said that this new exodus is pressuring already overcrowded and overstretched camps in the country.

The new violence has also heightened the tempo of diplomacy.

Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. Another meeting is expected this Friday.

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