U.N. aid agencies said on Tuesday that the United Nations’ first relief airlift to Syria from Iraq will deliver food and winter supplies to the mostly Kurdish northeast over the next 10 days with the permission of both governments.
According to information; after the initial weather delays, a cargo plane on Sunday will go to the Iraqi city Kurdistan by Erbil flight an hour later arrived in northeastern Syria.
Elisabeth Byrs, a representative for the U.N.‘s World nourishment Program (WFP), later said that it furthermore designed 10 rotations over the next 10 days in an operation directed at feeding more than 30,000 persons for a month.
She said that its first flight would carry 40 metric tons of nourishment, encompassing wheat flour, pasta, oil, sugar, saline, rice, canned beans and bulgur wheat.
The before unannounced junction UNHCR-WFP procedure had been long planned by land, a Western diplomat said. He told; “They had motor trucks and were prepared to move a week ago. It was supposed to be over this past weekend but it didn’t happen,”
Well over 100,000 persons have been slain in the conflict in Syria, which started with peaceful disputes against Assad in March 2011. The UNHCR states about 6.5 million persons have fled their dwellings within Syria and 2.3 million searched refuge overseas.
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