UN airlifts aid to northeastern Syria
Source: Khaleej Times / AFP
The UN World Food Programme on Tuesday said it was airlifting supplies to northeastern Syria, where raging violence has made it nearly impossible to truck aid in.
“WFP started airlifting on Tuesday enough food to feed close to 30,000 displaced people for a month from Iraq to Qamishli in northeast Syria,” spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said.
“This is for people who otherwise would be cut off from humanitarian assistance,” she told reporters.
The agency plans to fly in more than 400 tonnes of food and other items, mainly clothes, detergent and soap, supplied by UN children’s agency Unicef and the International Organization for Migration
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