The United Nations said today that its first aid convoy in three years had reached Syria’s Deir Ezzor city via road after government troops broke a jihadist siege last week.
Trucks carrying “life-saving items” like wheat flour, canned foods and nutrition and maternal health items for 15,000 families reached Deir Ezzor yesterday, UN humanitarian agency spokesman Jens laerke told reporters in Geneva.
“This is the first UN aid delivered by road to Deir Ezzor since the city was retaken,” he told reporters in Geneva.