ISLAMABAD: A record 4.1 million people in Syria received food rations in August due to more convoys being able to cross front lines and borders from Turkey and Jordan, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said.
"We are reaching more people every day with urgently needed food assistance many of them have been going hungry for months," Muhannad Hadi, the WFP's regional emergency coordinator for the Syria crisis, said in a statement, Today's Zaman Reported.
Over the last six weeks, the WFP and partner agencies have crossed front lines to reach more than 580,000 people, over four times the 137,000 reached in the preceding six weeks, it said.
The UN Security Council authorized the movement of UN aid through four border crossings in July.
That ended more than a year of aid paralysis that began when Damascus denied permission for UN staff to cross borders into rebel-held areas. Although Syrian forces did not control those areas, the UN said it could not infringe on Syrian sovereignty.
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