On Sunday, the Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF) began to provide aid to families affected by floods along the Euphrates River in Deir ez-Zor, Syria.

“BCF provided a mobile clinic with medical staff, food parcels, hygiene kits, kitchen sets, baby formula, and diapers to 1,000 families from Deir ez-Zor,” Ahmad Abdo, BCF’s Syria Director, told Kurdistan Chronicle.

According to UNHCR Syria, the floodings have severely impacted communities, damaging homes and disrupting livelihoods, with 3,625 people displaced from flood-affected areas. 

The floodings were caused after Turkish authorities released water into the Euphrates due to the heavy rainfall and rising reservoir levels, affecting the governorates of Raqqa and especially Deir ez-Zor.

The Water Resources Directorate in Raqqa announced that the level of the Euphrates River had dropped by approximately 60 centimeters since Saturday, as of midday Sunday, according to the state-run SANA news agency.

SANA said the decline follows technical measures implemented to regulate water discharge, particularly the closure of the fourth spillway gate at the Euphrates Dam and the reduction of water releases from the Kediran Dam, following a decrease in inflows from Turkey.

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In January, during the fighting between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the BCF also sent a huge amount of aid to the Hasakah Governorate in Syria via the Semalka border crossing on the orders of President Masoud Barzani.

Moreover, in January it launched a major humanitarian campaign to provide essential assistance to families who fled from Aleppo to Afrin during the clashes between Damascus and the SDF.