The United Nations humanitarian chief is warning that a halt to cross-border aid deliveries to the last rebel stronghold in Syria would cause “suffering and death.”
The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Monday that a halt to cross-border aid deliveries to the last rebel stronghold in Syria would cause “suffering and death,” but Syria’s ally Russia accused the U.N. and Western nations of trying to “sabotage” assistance from within Syria.
Lowcock said delivery of aid through two crossing points from Turkey enabled 1,781 trucks primarily carrying food for 1.3 million people to get to the mainly rebel-held northwest in May, which is still “far from sufficient.” He said more children and infants are arriving at nutrition centers “showing signs of chronic and acute malnutrition,” and some mothers say they are cooking weeds to supplement food rations.“The northwest continues to suffer a major humanitarian crisis,” Lowcock said.
He said cross-border deliveries were “incompatible with international law and humanitarian principles.” Last month, Russia’s Nebenzia said in response to Lowcock and calls by U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft for the Iraq crossing to the northeast to be opened: “Do not waste your time on efforts to reopen the closed cross-border points.”
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