{"id":98617,"date":"2018-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/7486\/"},"modified":"2018-07-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T21:00:00","slug":"7486","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/7486","title":{"rendered":"UN Official Pushes for Urgent Action to Deliver Aids across War-Torn Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"LTR\">The top UN official for humanitarian affairs said Friday that aid should continue to reach millions of people across Syria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"LTR\">&#8220;Humanitarian organizations continue to reach millions of people across Syria. More than 3 million people received food last month alone. But needs in many areas have continued to grow, in particular in the south-west and north-west, as well as in Riqqa,&#8221; Mark Lowcock, UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, told the Security Council in New York.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"LTR\">With regard to the southwest, Lowcock said the UN and its partners have mobilized a response that was reaching tens of thousands of people there, but some 110,000 newly displaced remained in Quneitra in areas largely cut off from aid.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"LTR\">&#8220;The response now needs to be urgently scaled up across the southwest, and in Quneitra in particular,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"LTR\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"LTR\">On eastern Ghouta, he said its humanitarian needs remained high, though some reports said markets were beginning to function again. &#8220;Close to 10,000 people from eastern Ghouta, mostly men between the ages of 15 and 65, are reported to remain in displacement sites across rural Damascus.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"LTR\">Moving up north, Lowcock said since November 2017, the total number of people in need of aid in Aleppo and Idlib governorates has increased by close to 600,000, to a total of 4.2 million, and of these people, half are in acute need.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"LTR\">He added that 182,000 persons have fled their homes southwest of Syria and are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"LTR\">Concluding his briefing, the under-secretary-general noted the UN appeal for Syria this year was still substantially underfunded and emphasized the need for safe, unimpeded and sustained access for humanitarian assistance.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top UN official for humanitarian affairs said Friday that aid should continue to reach millions of people across Syria. &#8220;Humanitarian organizations continue to reach millions of people across Syria. More than 3 million people received food last month alone. But needs in many areas have continued to grow, in particular in the south-west and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-98617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}