Many in northern Syria live off rubbish dumps - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Sonia Ali

Sonia Ali

Mar 30, 2020

Syrian children sift through garbage at a landfill in the rebel-held part of the northern city of Aleppo, on October 27, 2015. According to UNICEF, more than 2.6 million children from war-ravaged Syria are out of school, sparking fears of a "lost generation." AFP PHOTO / FADI AL-HALABI / AFP / AMC / Fadi al-Halabi (Photo credit should read FADI AL-HALABI/AFP via Getty Images) — Syrian children sift through garbage at a landfill, Aleppo, Syria, Oct. 27, 2015. — FADI AL-HALABI/AFP via Getty Images

A Syrian child poses atop a stack of neutralized shells at a metal scrapyard on the outskirts of Maaret Misrin town in the northwestern Idlib province, on March 10, 2021.

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Khaled al-Khateb

Khaled al-Khateb

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Sultan al-Kanj

A woman carries a quilt as she crosses a field in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz on March 13, 2020, a year after the fall of the Islamic State's (IS) caliphate.

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Unemployed Palestinian workers crowd in front of the Palestine Islamic Bank in Gaza to receive a $100 aid from the government appointed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas September 30, 2007. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA) - RTR1UFIM

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Rasha Abou Jalal

Rasha Abou Jalal

In Gaza City, reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict