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Turkish agency sets up mobile kitchen in Syria’s Idlib

March 30, 2018 at 3:20 pm

Smoke rises after the Assad Regime carried out air strikes in eastern Ghouta, Syria on 5 March 2018 [Mouneb Taim/Anadolu Agency]

One of Turkey’s leading aid groups Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) has established a mobile kitchen in Dar Hassan village of Syria’s Idlib for the families evacuated from Eastern Ghouta region, a foundation official said today reported by Anadolu Agency.

Selim Tosun, IHH’s media adviser in Syria, recalled that a humanitarian crisis had been unfolding in Eastern Ghouta for the last five years.

Tosun said the increase in the number of air strikes, as well as lack of food and medicine, were making it extremely difficult for the people in the region to survive.

We have set up tents in Idlib for families who were evacuated from Eastern Ghouta before. We helped almost 100 families to settle in those tents. Now we have established a mobile kitchen to serve them with hot meals. Around 3,000 people can benefit from our kitchen every day,

Tosun added.

In the past nine months, Bashar Al-Assad regime forces have intensified their siege on the region, making it nearly impossible for food or medicine to get into the district and leaving thousands of patients in need of treatment.

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