![]() Since then, cross-border aid deliveries were governed by a series of resolutions from the UNSC that had to be renegotiated every six months. For years, the Assad government had insisted it should control aid coming into the country while also doing things like starving opposition-held towns into submission and profiting from aid deliveries.īecause of this, the UN Security Council, or UNSC, got involved and authorized so-called "cross-border aid" - that is, aid delivered across the international borders into opposition-held areas without the Syrian government's permission. Up to 3 million of the 4.7 million people living in opposition-held northern Syria rely on humanitarian aid deliveries to survive. Then again, aid coming into Syria over international borders has been a political issue for years now. ![]() This is a regime that has deliberately targeted teams working on the ground." Around 2.7 million Syrians in Idlib depend on humanitarian aid deliveries Image: Ahmad al-ATRASH/AFP/Getty Images ![]() And as humanitarian organizations, we have no confidence in a system run by the Syrian regime. "Aid must not be politicized," insists Anas Khazendar, an aid worker whose foundation, Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous, distributes food, water and other supplies to 10 camps around Idlib. Instead, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, who many of the people living in this part of Syria oppose, has demanded his own government take charge of the deliveries. The 45-year-old is talking about the fact that a long-running mandate from the United Nations Security Council, which had allowed aid to be delivered over the Syrian-Turkish border directly into opposition-held areas, has just lapsed. "And I just cannot imagine why they would allow a person who displaced millions to supervise humanitarian aid now," al-Youssef told DW. ![]() Like millions of Syrians who fled their homes during the country's civil war, he depends on humanitarian aid coordinated by the UN and delivered into this opposition-held area in Idlib. The United Nations does not treat us well, compains Abd al-Salam al-Youssef, a Syrian father of five who lives in the Batenta camp for displaced people in northwestern Syria. ![]()
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