UN food reserves in Aleppo run out

(Baonghean.vn) - The UN representative said that the UN food reserves in the eastern part of Aleppo city, which is controlled by rebels, have been exhausted. While the amount of medicine and other goods left in the city is very little. No UN aid convoy has reached Aleppo since July.

The United Nations is rapidly implementing an aid plan for the eastern Aleppo region. (photo: TASS)

The envoy also warned that the coming winter weather would be a “devastating blow” and the UN was urgently seeking approval for an aid plan for eastern Aleppo, which includes providing medical care and food, as well as deploying medical teams to the area where hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped.

The UN is deeply concerned by the escalation of attacks and fighting in Aleppo, including reports of indiscriminate bombing and shelling, which have not only caused deaths and serious injuries to civilians, but also caused damage to civilian infrastructure, he said.

In the report of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on the humanitarian situation in Syria, eastern Aleppo is one of 16 besieged Syrian settlements. In this area, there are 970 thousand people living, but in October, only 286 thousand people received humanitarian aid.

Although Russia and the Syrian government declared a three-day unilateral ceasefire last October, it failed to achieve the goal of people withdrawing from rebel-controlled areas, nor to push rebel fighters to withdraw from the city.

The second "humanitarian ceasefire" was implemented on November 4 for 10 hours in the east of Aleppo city, to continue creating conditions for civilians and rebel fighters to withdraw from areas held by rebel groups. According to the United Nations, there are still about 275,000 civilians trapped in the east of Aleppo./.

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(According to TASS)