A convoy of 118 trucks carrying food, medicine, nutritional supplies, and vaccines reached the remote Rukban camp on Syria’s border with Jordan on Wednesday, according to the UN.
More than 40,000 displaced people, most of them women and children, are living in the makeshift settlement, where already dire conditions have worsened in recent months due to winter weather and shortages of food and medicine.
Largest ever’ aid convoy reaches Syria’s Rukban camp
UNHCR’s representative in Syria, Sajid Malik, said the delivery of aid, the first since November, had happened not a moment too soon, with reports of at least eight young children dying at Rukban in recent weeks.
The UN said the aid was “a temporary measure” and that, together with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, it would be carrying out a survey with the camp’s residents to enable them to “decide voluntarily and safely how to return to a normal life in a place of their choosing”.
