The aid will be delivered on Monday to the besieged town of Madaya at the Lebanese border as 63 people have been killed due to a six-month-old siege imposed by the Syrian regime.
The United Nation said the deal agreed on Saturday will also allow aid be deliverd simultaneously to two villages in the northwestern province of Idlib that are blockade by rebels.
"Both date and time have been set. Aid will go to three towns on Monday morning, all at the same time," said a source familiar with the matter. A second, pro-Syrian government source confirmed the details.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said they were preparing convoys packed with food and medical supplies for suffering populations in the towns of Madaya, al-Foua and Kefraya.
As Syria reels from civil war, a six-month-long blockade of Madaya by the Syrian army and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, has trapped about 40,000 residents now enduring a harsh winter.
Further north, the villages of al-Foua and Kefraya, in the Idlib governorate, are home to some 20,000 residents under siege by armed opposition groups.
Twenty-three people have died of starvation in Madaya since Dec. 1 at health centers supported by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the global medical aid group said.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 63 people have been killed due to the siege, 34 of them were killed as they were trying cross the town which is surrounded by 6000 landmines.
Blockades have been a common feature of the nearly five-year-old civil war that has killed an estimated 250,000 people, with government forces besieging rebel-held areas and rebel groups blockading loyalist areas.
Siege warfare has been used in Syria "in a ruthlessly coordinated and planned manner" with the aim of "forcing a population, collectively, to surrender or suffer starvation," a U.N. commission of inquiry has said.
A U.N. Security Council resolution adopted on Dec. 18 setting out a road map for peace talks called on the parties to allow aid agencies unhindered access throughout Syria, particularly in besieged and hard-to-reach areas.
A newly formed opposition council set up to oversee negotiations has said aid must be delivered before talks that are planned for Jan. 25.
This will be the second humanitarian convoy reaching the three towns. The first took place in October. (Reuters- Zaman Al Wasl)
The United Nation said the deal agreed on Saturday will also allow aid be deliverd simultaneously to two villages in the northwestern province of Idlib that are blockade by rebels.
"Both date and time have been set. Aid will go to three towns on Monday morning, all at the same time," said a source familiar with the matter. A second, pro-Syrian government source confirmed the details.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said they were preparing convoys packed with food and medical supplies for suffering populations in the towns of Madaya, al-Foua and Kefraya.
As Syria reels from civil war, a six-month-long blockade of Madaya by the Syrian army and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, has trapped about 40,000 residents now enduring a harsh winter.
Further north, the villages of al-Foua and Kefraya, in the Idlib governorate, are home to some 20,000 residents under siege by armed opposition groups.
Twenty-three people have died of starvation in Madaya since Dec. 1 at health centers supported by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the global medical aid group said.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 63 people have been killed due to the siege, 34 of them were killed as they were trying cross the town which is surrounded by 6000 landmines.
Blockades have been a common feature of the nearly five-year-old civil war that has killed an estimated 250,000 people, with government forces besieging rebel-held areas and rebel groups blockading loyalist areas.
Siege warfare has been used in Syria "in a ruthlessly coordinated and planned manner" with the aim of "forcing a population, collectively, to surrender or suffer starvation," a U.N. commission of inquiry has said.
A U.N. Security Council resolution adopted on Dec. 18 setting out a road map for peace talks called on the parties to allow aid agencies unhindered access throughout Syria, particularly in besieged and hard-to-reach areas.
A newly formed opposition council set up to oversee negotiations has said aid must be delivered before talks that are planned for Jan. 25.
This will be the second humanitarian convoy reaching the three towns. The first took place in October. (Reuters- Zaman Al Wasl)
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