A Syrian woman uses olive branches as firewood to cook in a makeshift camp on the outskirts of Qah, a village in northern Idlib .

Home to four million civilians, northwest Syria is in the midst of a humanitarian catastrophe. Intense fighting in Idlib has forced 950,000 people to flee since December 1. More than 50 percent have been women and children. Many of these families had fled the area previously during earlier waves of violence.

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