UN Blocked From Delivering Aid to Besieged Areas in Syria

The United Nations is appealing to the Syrian government to provide the permits needed to send humanitarian aid convoys into besieged and hard-to-reach areas and to allow a life-saving vaccination campaign for children to go ahead.   United Nations convoys have delivered desperately needed humanitarian assistance to nearly 260,000 people living in those areas of Syria since the beginning of the year.  Aid agencies aim to reach more than 1 million people before the end of...

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