UN Aid convoy Enters Syria’s Idlib Through government Areas
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday, a humanitarian aid convoy of UN World Food Programme (WFP), coming from Syrian government-held areas, got in Idlib Governorate that is held by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly al-Nusra Front).
A special source told North Press that the WFP convoy entered Idlib coming from the government-held areas in the city of Saraqib.
This convoy is the seventh of its kind after the UN Security Council approved to extend lifesaving aid deliveries into northwest Syria through Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey.
On July 13, the UN Security Council approved to extend lifesaving aid deliveries into northwest Syria through Bab al-Hawa border crossing for a further six months, while al-Ya’rubiyah border crossing remained blocked.
Since July 10, 2020, Bab al-Hawa has been the only crossing kept open to UN aid based on the resolution 2533 (2020).
“The convoy passed through the village of al-Trumba in coordination with the HTS and the Syrian Red Crescent,” the source added.
The aid food convoy consisted of 16 trucks carrying food and other humanitarian aid, which are supposed to be distributed to the poorest families in northwestern Syria.
According to the source, the trucks headed towards the warehouses of a humanitarian organization in the border city of Sarmada north of Idlib amid security tightening by the HTS that escorted the convoy till it reached its final point.
In July 2014, the UN Security Council adopted the Resolution 2165 which authorized the UN to deliver cross-border humanitarian aid to Syria through four crossings al-Ramtha crossing with Jordan, Bab al-Salam, Bab al-Hawa with Turkey, and al Ya’rubiyah (Tel Kocher) with Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), without the consent of the Syrian government.