2024-02-23T10:07:31+00:00
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/ The International Rescue Committee (IRC) revealed on Friday the ten countries in which conditions are expected to deteriorate during the current year.
According to the 2024 Emergency Watch List, issued by the committee, which is a global list of humanitarian crises that monitored crises and conflicts in 20 countries, their conditions are expected to deteriorate further during the current year, according to the American CNN Arabic network.
The watch list countries are divided into the top 10 countries that are classified, and the second half that is not classified. Of the 10 countries that are classified, Sudan ranked first on the watch list, as the ongoing war between the armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces pushed it to the top of the emergency watch list for 2024, and pushed the country to the brink of collapse.
Less than a year of fighting has doubled the number of people in need of humanitarian support.
In Darfur, human rights groups have reported mass killings and forced displacement along ethnic lines. The crisis is expected to deteriorate significantly through 2024, leaving millions without adequate food and unable to access health and other vital services.
The Palestinian territories came in second place, with Gaza entering 2024 as the deadliest place for civilians in the world. The population is bearing the brutal consequences of the latest round of conflict between Israel and Hamas, which is being waged with little regard for international laws and norms designed to protect civilians even in the most dire circumstances.
Israeli forces began airstrikes and ground operations after Hamas launched a deadly ground incursion and rocket fire into southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 200 Israeli hostages. Israeli operations since then have caused massive destruction, death and displacement throughout Gaza, especially in the north, killing more than 28,000 people.
The occupied Palestinian territory rises to its highest ever position on the Emergency Watch List because the humanitarian emergency will continue long after the fighting eventually stops.
In third place on the list of countries classified among the 10 worst crises in the world is South Sudan, followed by Burkina Faso in fourth place, then Myanmar (Burma) in fifth place, Mali in sixth place, Somalia in seventh place, followed by Niger in eighth place, Ethiopia in ninth place, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in tenth place.
The second half of the humanitarian emergency list of unclassified countries included Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Chad, Ecuador, Haiti, Lebanon, Nigeria, Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen.
According to a 2024 report, the report saw record levels of humanitarian crises across other key metrics.
299.4 million people will be in need of humanitarian assistance this year, 86% of whom (258 million) are in emergency watch list countries.
The total number of people in need in 2024 is 17.5% lower than the record 363 million in 2023. However, the number of people in need in non-Watchlist countries decreased by 43%, while the number of people in need in Watchlist countries remained stable, little changed from 260 million in 2023 (a decrease of 1%). The number of people in.