Russian delegation distributes expired relief aid to villages in northern Aleppo countryside

Aleppo – North-Press
Agency

A Russian
delegation has distributed 3 thousand relief food baskets, which contained
corrupted and expired items for the residents of the village of Um al-Hosh of Fafin
district in northern Aleppo countryside last Thursday, the thing that caused
discontent among the local residents.

The Russian
delegation, consisting of a group of military officers from the Russian base of
Hmeimim, in Latakia countryside, along with some officers from the Syrian
government forces, had visited last Wednesday the camps of Afrin’s internally
displaced people, in the northern countryside of Aleppo, as they distributed
those rotten food baskets to those camps’ neighboring villages.

Footages of
these relief baskets, which were provided to the villagers, were spread on
social media, the footages show rice and flour containing worms and insects, as
well as expired milk cans.

For their
part, the displaced people living in the village of Um al-Hosh have refused to
receive the aid, which was provided to them by the Russian military delegation.

More than
350,000 people were displaced from the Syrian-Kurdish region of Afrin towards
the northern countryside of Aleppo, upon the control of the Turkish army and Turkey
affiliated armed opposition groups over the Kurdish region on March 18, 2018, as
those IDPs were distributed in five camps.

However, the
camps didn’t accommodate all of the large number of those IDPs, where a part of
them has resided in the villages of Aleppo northern countryside, which in turn
had been completely destroyed during the fighting operations between the
“Brigade of the Kurdish Front” (which is included in the ranks of the
Syrian Democratic Forces) and the Islamic State militants (ISIS) in 2017.