First post-earthquake UN aid convoy arrives in rebel areas of Syria

June 23 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Officials from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) have confirmed the arrival this Friday in rebel-controlled areas in northwestern Syria of the first humanitarian convoy since the earthquake that devastated good part of the area in February of this year.

It is a convoy of ten aid trucks that have crossed from Aleppo, under the control of the Syrian government, to the governorate of Idlib, after months of enormous difficulties to arrive due to the enormous material damage on the roads that run through the territory.

In the aftermath of the earthquake, aid deliveries became a point of contention between the Syrian opposition, which insisted that aid come only through neighboring Turkey, and the Syrian government and its main allies, including Russia, who wanted that all help would come through Damascus.

The OCHA office in Syria had announced hours earlier on its Twitter account that the eleventh cross-border humanitarian convoy from Aleppo to northwestern Syria “was already underway”, in line with UN Security Council Resolution 2672.