Madaya, Fouaa and Kafraya: New aid planned for besieged Syria towns Thursday - UN

Aid groups hope to deliver more food and medicine on Thursday to three besieged Syrian towns, including Madaya, where residents have reportedly starved to death, a UN official said.

Linda Tom, a spokeswoman with the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), confirmed new aid deliveries were planned for Madaya, where more than two dozen people are thought to have died from lack of food, and two other towns.

"We are planning operations to Madaya, Fuaa and Kafraya on Thursday, which will be followed by a third delivery in the following days," she said on Wednesday.

She added that assistance for a fourth town, Zabadani, was being planned for a later date.

Badly needed supplies entered the three towns on Monday....AFP.....http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/180931.aspx
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• Realities about Madaya, Kefraya and Fouaa...

It is supposed that the trucks carrying flour will arrive in the Syrian towns of Madaya, Kefraya and Fouaa on Thursday, al-Manar correspondent in Syria reported.

This move, which is supervised by the United Nations and the Red Cross, comes just few days after humanitarian aids entered these towns following long delay caused by the Takfiri terrorists.

Our correspondent said that the number of the civilians who get out of Madaya, in Damascus countryside, on Monday reached 300, noting that they got out of the town under a deal with the Syrian government.

80 men joined the fourth battalion of the Syrian army, the correspondent reported.

Under the deal, UN representatives entered Madaya, however they did not get into Kefraya and Fouaa, in Idlib countryside, under the pretext that there are checkpoints for Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham terrorists in the two towns, the correspondent said.

However, he noted that Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham insurgents also control the checkpoints in Madaya.

The Correspondent meanwhile, reported that residents in Kefraya and Fouaa call upon the UN representatives to get in to the two towns in order to inspect the humanitarian situation there.

Al-Manar had earlier exposed how the Takfiri insurgents have been using the civilians in these towns as human shields and preventing access to food supplies.

When the aid got into Kefraya, Fouaa and Madaya on Monday, the residents assured that the terrorists were selling the food aids which were delivered to these towns.
Source: Al Manar TV
 almanar.com.lb
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