Jan Egeland provided no details about how the aid might get in or where it would go in eastern Aleppo, where President Bashar Assad’s forces have made recent inroads to recapture areas from opposition fighters.
Egeland said Thursday in Geneva that efforts to evacuate hundreds of wounded people from eastern Aleppo stalled after a deadly attack on a Russian military hospital in government-controlled west Aleppo last week.
He said the government agreed to a UN plan to deliver aid across front lines and reach about 85 percent of 930,000 people in “besieged areas” across Syria.
UN official says Syria approves Aleppo aid
09 December 2016
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A UN aid official says Syria’s government has authorized UN-organized aid shipments into eastern Aleppo for the first time.
