Claude Moraes (S&D), in writing. − The current situation in Syria has resulted in a humanitarian crisis. In a civil war that has lasted and escalated over two years since March 2011, around 1.4 million people are estimated to have been made refugees as a result of the violence and have fled to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. It is currently estimated that 8 000 people are leaving Syria every day. There are doubts as to whether the EU aid of EUR 473 million, delivered since 2011, has really been efficiently used, appropriately allocated, or even reached the intended recipients. Reports of attacks on refugee camps, the possible use of chemical weapons by Assad on his own people, and the recent destabilising situation in the Lebanon as regards Hezbollah, all will have the effect of increasing the diaspora of refugees, but in a less predictable manner. This is increasing considerably the burden on UN and EU agencies trying to meet the needs of these refugees. No matter the decision made by the EU on the arms embargo, it is vital that we continue to meet the needs of the most vulnerable and the dispossessed in this conflict.