14 UN food aid trucks enter Syria’s Idlib through government areas
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – Trucks carrying food aid sent by the UN World Food Program entered on Monday the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-held areas in Idlib, northwest Syria. The trucks came from the Syrian government-held areas, east of Idlib.
“A humanitarian aid convoy of the UN World Food Program entered Idlib coming from the government-controlled areas in the city of Saraqib. It passed through the village of al-Trumba in coordination with HTS and the Syrian Red Crescent,” special sources told North Press.
The aid food convoy consisted of 14 trucks carrying food and other humanitarian aid, which are supposed to be distributed to the poorest families in northwest Syria.
According to the sources, the trucks headed towards the warehouses of a humanitarian organization in the border city of Sarmada with Turkey, north of Idlib. HTS prevented journalists from covering the entry of the trucks.
At the end of last March, 14 UN aid trucks carrying food aid also entered the areas controlled by HTS coming from the government forces areas of control through the same crossing border.
Last July, 2021 the UN Security Council adopted a resolution extending the mechanism for the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria for a year from the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the Turkish border, north of Idlib.