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Humanitarian aid reaches 25,000 people in besieged Syrian town: UN

Xinhua, June 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

An inter-agency convoy delivered life-saving assistance to 25,000 people in the hard-to-reach town of Bloudan in Rural Damascus in Syria, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said here Wednesday.

"The convoy contained food, medicine, heath and other emergency items for 25,000 people in need," Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here. "This is the third inter-agency convoy to Bloudan this year."

Since the beginning of 2016, nearly 850,000 people have been reached, many more than once, with assistance through UN inter-agency operations in besieged and hard-to-reach areas, including more than 330,000 people in besieged locations.

"Meanwhile, the number of people in Syria being assisted by UN cross-border convoys from Turkey and Jordan continues to grow," the spokesman said.

Since the launch of UN cross-border deliveries in 2014 through May, a total of 337 convoys have been sent by the United Nations and its partners, reaching millions of people with food, health and other assistance in Aleppo, Dar'a, Hama, Idleb, Latakia and Quneitra governorates. Endit