Thursday, 10 June 2021 – Aid agencies are warning of a looming humanitarian catastrophe if the UN Security Council fails to renew a resolution allowing.
English News and Press Release on Syrian Arab Republic about Food and Nutrition, Health, Epidemic and more; published on 10 Jun 2021 by CARE, Concern and 24 other organizations
Thursday, 10 June 2021 - Aid agencies are warning of a looming humanitarian catastrophe if the UN Security Council fails to renew a resolution allowing lifesaving aid delivered cross-border to reach Syria. The resolution is set to expire in exactly a month’s time on July 10th.
STOCKHOLM
The UN’s last remaining entry point for transporting assistance into rebel-held Syria hangs in the balance, as the Security Council gears up for a vote aid groups say could be one of the most important diplomatic showdowns of the decade-long war.
After so many years of conflict, a recent and ongoing economic collapse has combined with the COVID-19 pandemic to propel humanitarian needs in Syria to new highs. The World Food Programme says a record-breaking 60 percent of the population is now food insecure.
Nowhere is the situation worse than in Idlib, a northwestern region that has suffered enormously from the war. Now ruled by Tahrir al-Sham, an extreme Islamist group under UN and US counterterrorism sanctions, Idlib is packed with displaced civilians, many of whom have had to flee their homes multiple times.