UN aid distributed in remote Rukban camp in Syria

UN aid distributed in remote Rukban camp in Syria.

A United Nations aid convoy on Saturday, November 3, reached the Rukban refugee camp in Syria where thousands of people are stranded in the desert, close to the border with Jordan, a member of the camp's local council said.

The United Nations said it was delivering food, sanitation and hygiene supplies, nutrition and health assistance to 50,000 people in Rukban, an area under rebel control, in an operation expected to take three to four days.

The Syrian Arab Red Crescent is also taking part in the convoy, which will also involve an emergency vaccination campaign for 10,000 children against measles, polio and other diseases, a UN statement said.

Shortages of food and medicine at the camp, where the last UN aid convoy arrived in January, have caused at least a dozen deaths in recent weeks; the United Nations described conditions there as "concerning" and said thousands of lives were at risk.

(Source: Reuters)


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