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UN Sends Humanitarian Convoy to Besieged Syrian Town of Douma - UN Spokesman

© AFP 2023 / AMER ALMOHIBANYUN vehicles escorting a Red Crescent convoy carrying humanitarian aid arrive in Kafr Batna, in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area, on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on February 23, 2016 during an operation in cooperation with the UN to deliver aid to thousands of besieged Syrians
UN vehicles escorting a Red Crescent convoy carrying humanitarian aid arrive in Kafr Batna, in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area, on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on February 23, 2016 during an operation in cooperation with the UN to deliver aid to thousands of besieged Syrians - Sputnik International
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The United Nations sent a humanitarian convoy on Tuesday to the Syrian town of Douma, six miles northeast of Damascus, UN spokesman in Syria Khaled Masri told Sputnik.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — In March, adviser to the UN special envoy for Syria on humanitarian issues Jan Egeland said that some 70,000 people in the town were under siege by armed Syrian opposition groups.

"The UN humanitarian convoy, consisting of 50 buses with medicines and food, was sent to the city of Douma in East Gouta, in cooperation with the Syrian Red Crescent," Masri said.

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