NGOs estimate they only have capacity to scale up to meet the needs of 300,000 people, leaving over 1 million without food assistance.Ī failure to renew the resolution would also put a halt to the UN-led COVID-19 vaccination campaign for people living in North West Syria, where there have been at least 24,257 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 680 reported deaths, amid a spike in infection rates in the last month.
If the Security Council fails to support a renewal, these supplies would run out by September 2021. The World Food Programme provides 1.4 million Syrians with food baskets each month through the Bab al Hawa crossing. NGOs are warning that a failure to renew would put access to food assistance for more than 1 million people at stake, as well as COVID-19 vaccinations, critical medical supplies and humanitarian assistance for many more.Ī group of 42 NGOs are warning that the provision of food supplies would be impossible to replace at the scale offered by the UN, which would be forced to stop operating if the resolution is not renewed. The resolution is set to expire in exactly a month’s time on July 10th. New York, NY, JAid agencies are warning of a looming humanitarian catastrophe if the UN Security Council fails to renew a resolution allowing lifesaving aid delivered cross-border to reach Syria.
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