The United Nations has delivered life-saving aid to thousands of people in the besieged Syrian town of Moadamiyet al-Sham for the first time since early 2012, humanitarian agencies said on Friday. A spokeswoman for the World Food Programme said aid workers with food and hygiene supplies managed to enter the embattled town, 10 kilometres (six miles) south-west of Damascus, on July 14. "As of July 17, a total of 2,900 family food rations were delivered in support of 14,500 people," spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said, adding the mission to bring aid to the town had been extended for three days. The UN Security Council on Monday adopted a resolution authorising humanitarian convoys to Syria without the consent of the Damascus regime, to help more than one million civilians in rebel-held areas.
07-21-2014, 03:40 PM
UN delivers first aid to besieged Syrian town since 2012
The United Nations has delivered life-saving aid to thousands of people in the besieged Syrian town of Moadamiyet al-Sham for the first time since early 2012, humanitarian agencies said on Friday. A spokeswoman for the World Food Programme said aid workers with food and hygiene supplies managed to enter the embattled town, 10 kilometres (six miles) south-west of Damascus, on July 14. "As of July 17, a total of 2,900 family food rations were delivered in support of 14,500 people," spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said, adding the mission to bring aid to the town had been extended for three days. The UN Security Council on Monday adopted a resolution authorising humanitarian convoys to Syria without the consent of the Damascus regime, to help more than one million civilians in rebel-held areas.
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