UN Security Council: Restore Syria Cross-Border Aid

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image UN humanitarian aid trucks enter northwest Syria through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey on June 1, 2021. © 2021 Associated Press (New York) – Russia should not block the United Nations Security Council from reauthorizing and expanding cross-border humanitarian aid operations across northern Syria, Human Rights Watch said today. Millions of people in northeast and northwest Syria need cross-border distribution of food, medicine, Covid-19 vaccines, and other lifesaving assistance. On July 10, 2021, Security Council authorization for Bab al-Hawa on the…

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