![]() Meanwhile, the Syrian government and its ally, Russia, pushed for the aid to be sent via Damascus.Īfter the February 6 quake, an administrative arm of Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham accused al-Assad’s government of trying “to benefit from the aid intended for victims of the earthquake”. In the wake of the earthquake, aid deliveries to affected areas became a political battleground, with opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and many aid organisations pushing for the United Nations to send more aid shipments to northern Syria by way of Turkey. ![]() KRdaLQZZ1qĪfter the February earthquake that struck Turkey and northern Syria, causing widespread destruction with more than 50,000 people killed, convoys have been prevented from entering the province of Idlib from government-held areas by the armed group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which dominates the area.Īround three million people, most of whom have been displaced by Syria’s war, live in the Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham-controlled parts of the Idlib region. This is in line with UN Security Council Resolution 2672 which calls for both cross-line and cross-border #humanitarian assistance. The 11th cross-line convoy is underway, carrying UN humanitarian supplies from Aleppo to north-west #Syria. UN OCHA said on Twitter on Friday the “cross-line convoy is underway, carrying UN humanitarian supplies” to northwest Syria. The last aid shipment to cross the front lines in the conflict was in early January. ![]() The convoy with humanitarian supplies crossed from a government-controlled area in the province of Aleppo, and entered Idlib, according to the UN office for humanitarian affairs or OCHA. Ten trucks carrying UN aid have entered Syria’s last rebel-held enclave from government-held territory, the first such shipment to cross battle lines since February’s deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, UN officials say. ![]()
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