Closure of Yaroubiyah crossing affects health in northeast Syria: Health official
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – “The continuation of the closure of Tel Kocher (Yaroubiyah) crossing will negatively affect the health condition in northeast Syria,” a health official in the Raqqa city, north Syria, said on Tuesday.
On Friday, the United Nations Security Council issued a decision to extend the mechanism of the entry of humanitarian aid through Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey into northwest Syria in two stages, each lasting for six months, without adding any other crossings.
A year ago, Tel Kocher crossing was closed by the UN Security Council decision under Russian-Chinese veto, limiting the entry of aid only to Bab al-Hawa on the Turkish-Syrian border.
“The closure of Tel Kocher crossing mainly affected the entry of vaccines, medicine, and medical aid to northeast Syria,” head of the Nurses Union and Medical Professions in Raqqa Askar Askar said.
The Nurses Union and Medical Professions is one of the civil society organizations, which is a group of unions and syndicates, working to be a link among the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, the social communities and economic activities.
On Monday, NGOs in Raqqa issued a statement condemning the closure of the crossings to the entry of humanitarian, medical and trade aid, in light of the “very difficult economic conditions that the country is going through.”
The statement appealed the international community, Human Rights Watch, and the UN to open the crossings to humanitarian aid and the trade movement.