UN appeals : 'Food needed for over 10 million Syrians '
Damascus ( AsiaNews / Agencies) - By the end of the year at least 10 million Syrians will need humanitarian support . With more than 2 million refugees assessed by UNHCR and 16.5 billion dollars in property damage calculated by the Interior Ministry in Damascus, the United Nations estimates that, as early as next January, 50% of the population will not be able to provide for itself. "It is an unprecedented catastrophe - says Gary Quinaln , Ambassador of Australia to the organization - the war in Syria produces a refugee every 15 seconds."
Faced with this
"humanitarian tragedy " , the Security Council has called on the
Syrian authorities to take "timely measures" , demanding it allow access
to UN convoys across borders of neighboring countries . "
If this measure were to be approved, we would be able to reach 2 million people
more - says Valerie Amos , head of humanitarian operations - people who are
located in areas of the country that have been isolated for months ."
Moscow
- Assad's main ally - immediately expressed its disapproval frightened by the
possibility that this could benefit the rebels. The
Russian president , Vladimir Putin, however, reiterated his satisfaction with
the agreement reached with Washington on the dismantling of Syria's chemical
weapons, and stated that " a coordinated effort can help avoid the use of
force and increase in violence , in a country that has
suffered for a long time. "
Meanwhile,
in northern Syria and Aleppo - where schools have reopened after over a year - clashes
between the Free Syrian Army ( FSA) and jihadi militants are intensifying, to
the benefit of the latter. In
Aazaz , local sources report that " the fighters of the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant took possession of strategic points , cutting the direct
link to the Turkish border ." This
creates problems for the refugees , fleeing toward the northwest , and for the
soldiers of the FSA , trained in Turkey.
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