Syrian regime removes vital supplies from Ghouta aid convoy

A World Health Organization executive says 70 percent of the supplies loaded on its trucks were removed by Bashar al Assad’s regime forces during inspection.
A World Health Organization (WHO) executive said that Syrian regime forces removed trauma kits and surgical supplies from trucks that are part of an inter-agency convoy heading into the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta.
The statement from WHO came just hours after the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said fresh raids by the regime on the opposition-held enclave killed at least 14 civilians on Monday.
“Yesterday, the UN and partners mission to deliver assistance to Douma in besieged eastern Ghouta was forced to be cut short due to escalating violence[…],” UN Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs spokesman (OCHA) Jens Laerke said in a news conference in Geneva on Tuesday.Indicating that after nearly nine hours inside Eastern Ghouta, the decision was made to leave the town for security reasons, Laerke said: “14 of 46 trucks in the convoy were not able to fully offload critical humanitarian supplies. Of the 14, four were partially offloaded.”
Under siege since 2013, they had already been facing severe shortages of food and medicine. The region’s over-burdened medical workers have been struggling to cope.
 
Source: TRTWorld
 

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