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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
UN airlifts aid to northeastern Syria
2014-02-05
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.

The agency plans to fly in more than 400 tonnes of food and other items, mainly clothes, detergent and soap, supplied by UN childrenÂ’s agency Unicef and the International Organization for Migration.
The Arab countries are separately supporting the Widows Ammunition Fund, the largest charity by far in Syria. They help both sides...
In December, the WFP airlifted supplies for 62,000 in the northeast who had been deprived of food aid for more than five months.

The WFP’s operation is the only airlift currently under way in Syria. Aid agencies have repeatedly sounded the alarm about their inability to supply regular aid by road — logistically simpler, but more dangerous — to the millions of Syrians who have been driven from their homes over nearly three years of civil war.
Posted by:Steve White

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