Women and children in Syria’s Darya call for UN to send aid

Women and children took to the streets on Wednesday in the Syrian town of Darya, south-west of the capital Damascus, to call on the United Nations to send humanitarian aid to them, Anadolu reported.

Under the deal to halt hostilities reached at the end of last month, besieged areas in Syria were to receive humanitarian aid. Darya, which has been under a siege imposed by the Syrian regime and its allies for three years, is yet to receive aid.

The women and children raised placards expressing their disappointment with the UN.

Director of the Information Centre in Darya Hussam Al-Ahmad said: “Women and children took to the streets to refute the claims of the Syrian regime, which denied the existence of civilians in the besieged city.”

He noted that Darya has not received humanitarian aid since the start of the siege three years ago.

Al-Ahmad added: “The people in Darya have depended on smuggled aid since the start of the siege until about one and half a month ago, when the Syrian regime tightened the siege through tracking smuggling routes.”

He said that 12,000 residents in the city are currently without any humanitarian support, warning that they are depending on items they have stored, which are running out.