Video: Five million affected by Syria's deepening humanitarian crisis, warn Oxfam The UN needs to increase efforts to find a political solution to the fighting in Syria at the same time as improving access for aid providers inside the country, said the CEO of Oxfam. Within Syria, there are believed to be about five million people who are in need of assistance. Of them, about four million are internally displaced, so shelter, water, food - apart from the obvious which is security - are priority needs," said Mark Goldring. "It's the combination of getting more agencies operating more freely within Syria, and at the same time, or instead, a second-best is corridors into Syria from neigbouring countries," he said. Oxfam also warns that neigbouring countries are increasingly unable to cope with the flow of refugees fleeing Syria, with Jordan alone receiving several thousand daily. Video footage courtesy of Oxfam