Humanitarian aid: yet this year, the organization was only able to attend 32% of people living in besieged areas and 6.5% of Syrians living in hard to reach places
Geneva - The United Nations (UN) managed to deliver humanitarian assistance to almost 450,000 people in Syria since the beginning of the year, announced Affairs Coordination Office entity of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Thursday.
UN convoys were also able to access areas defined as "difficult", mainly because of various security controls imposed by different groups.
Still this year, the organization was only able to attend 32% of people living in besieged areas and 6.5% of Syrians living in hard to reach places.
At a news conference, the head of the UN working group on humanitarian access, Jan Egeland, said he was "frustrated" by the fact that the pace of assistance not only grows as decelerates.
"The delivery rate is not improving as it should, but decelerating The message is clear for those who have influence on the government:. The government should fulfill its promises and should enable us to help people's needs quickly grow if we can not get. where we should, "he said.
He specified that although "all parties to the conflict" are putting impediments to the delivery of assistance, the most responsible for the locks is the Bashar al Assad regime.
"If the 18 areas under siege 15 are under siege from the government or their friends militias (in reference to the Lebanese group Hezbollah), it is clear that most of the problems is related to the government," he affirmed.
Egeland said the recent case of five trains with humanitarian aid that were ready and could not leave for lack of permission.
"Of the five, four were not authorized by the government and by opposing forces," he detailed, adding that if they had entered, the materials would benefit 287,000 people.
Faced with this situation, Egeland said he "hopes and prays" for rapid changes in the near future to accelerate the delivery of humanitarian aid and to fulfill, so in order to assist 1.1 million people by the end of this month.
"If there is no rapid change can not fulfill the plan," he said.
He explained that last week three children Madaya died after a bomb they were using as a toy exploded.
Egeland said the next goal is to remove 500 people from the towns of Madaya, Zabadani, El Fua and Kefraya. According to him, if this is possible "will be an unprecedented medical evacuation."
He said that there is no distinction between civilians and combatants and that everyone will be hospitalized in locations with control and supervision of the International Red Cross.
"Medical evacuations, as well as revisions in besieged areas, should be routine," he said.
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