UN: Syrian government still holding up food aid for besieged Daraya

Vehicles of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the United Nations wait on a street after an aid convoy entered the rebel-held Syrian town of Daraya, southwest of the capital Damascus, on June 1, 2016. A humanitarian aid convoy entered Daraya, the Red Cross said, in the first such delivery since a regime siege began in 2012. But the opposition said only medical supplies were in the delivery and British charity Save the Children said it was "shocking and completely unacceptable" that it excluded desperately needed food. / AFP PHOTO / Fadi Dirani

The United Nations is still waiting for Syrian government agreement for an aid convoy to enter the besieged town of Daraya, UN officials said on Tuesday. “The blockage of aid is a political issue,” UN spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told a regular UN briefing in Geneva. “Daraya is 12 km (7.5 miles) from Damascus, so it … Continue reading UN: Syrian government still holding up food aid for besieged Daraya