Syrian conflict: Regime troops block food deliveries to besieged Damascus suburb

[Sally]

Sad when you don't allow aid to get through to starving people.


Syrian conflict: Regime troops block food deliveries to besieged Damascus suburb
Updated 13 May 2016, 14:35 AEST
By Middle East correspondent Sophie McNeill


Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is continuing to use food as a weapon of war, with a United Nations aid convoy blocked from taking supplies into a besieged Damascus neighbourhood.

A Red Crescent convoy of aid trucks lined up on a Damascus street. (Credit: AFP)
The convoy was due to arrive on Thursday in the besieged Damascus neighbourhood of Daraya, which has been without aid for three-and-a-half years.

But the Assad regime refused to allow food supplies to be included as part of the aid delivery.

The convoy then tried to deliver baby milk and medicine, but those supplies were also blocked.

Syrian activists in Daraya posted a video on social media on Thursday highlighting the plight of the neighbourhood's desperate residents.

"We stay for days without bread," a crying woman says in Arabic while holding her young daughter.

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Syrian conflict: Regime troops block food deliveries to besieged Damascus suburb?

 

[Bleipriester]

Convoy of course entered the district but delivered meds only. Blatant western media lies propaganda picked up by drooling Sally.

 

[Bleipriester]

I wonder, why it is always only civilians who starve.

 

[Sally]

I wonder, why it is always only civilians who starve.

I guess you never heard the expression "An Army marches on its stomach." Do you honestly think that if those actually fighting would give up their chance at getting their hands on the aid packages?

 

[Bleipriester]

Read here how "regime blocks humanitarian aid to Harasta in Damascus":

"Relief convoys carrying food, medicine and essential supplies entered Harasta from the adjacent government-controlled Assad Suburb just on the side of the road.

Harasta, a key bastion of the Saudi-backed Jaish al-Islam, has been caught in bloody infighting among different Islamist groups, where dozens have been killed and hundreds displaced."

ICRC enters rebel stronghold for the first time in 4 years | Al-Masdar News

 

[Freeman]

Why in the past the hypocrite US didn't drop foods to besieged town?!

Kerry: World Food Programme to drop aid into besieged Syria towns

VIENNA: World powers Tuesday called on the United Nations to carry out air drops over besieged areas in Syria as regime blockades in rebel-held areas were stopping all food and medical aid in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Kerry: World Food Programme to drop aid into besieged Syria towns

 

[Bleipriester]

Freeman Sally

Huge convoy heading to Daraya!

 

[Bleipriester]

Syrian Army advances in western Darayya after reinforcements flood the city

The Syrian Arab Army’s Special Forces advanced inside western Darayya on Sunday morning after taking a long hiatus from military activity inside this West Ghouta city near the Syrian capital of Damascus.

According to an Al-Masdar correspondent inside Damascus City, the Syrian Special Forces captured several building blocks from the extremist rebels of Ajnad Al-Sham after firing over 20 missiles and 200 mortar shells at the latter’s positions in the Darayya Association Quarter.

The source added that the Syrian Arab Army is expected to kickoff a major military operation inside Darayya in the coming days, as hundreds of reinforcements pour into this besieged city that is located at the southwestern fringes of Damascus City.

Syrian Army advances in western Darayya after reinforcements flood the city | Al-Masdar News

 

[Bleipriester]

Intense clashes start-up in Darayya as rebel factions attempt to reclaim lost points

"The source added that Ajnad Al-Sham’s assault was ultimately foiled before dawn on Saturday; furthermore, no points were lost to the rebel forces."

Intense clashes start-up in Darayya as rebel factions attempt to reclaim lost points | Al-Masdar News

 

[Bleipriester]

Daraya truce settled as the Syrian Army turns to diplomacy in Damascus

"A few thousand people are estimated to have stayed in Daraya despite ongoing clashes; these people will now be granted access to much needed food and medical attention."

Daraya truce settled as the Syrian Army turns to diplomacy in Damascus | Al-Masdar News

 

[Bleipriester]

Terrorists immediately violate the truce...

Clashes erupt in Darayya after short-lived ceasefire: video

 

[Sally]

How come you never tell us when your boyfriend's regime violates the ceasefire? Meanwhile, some people are still starving.

UN: Syrian government still holding up food aid for besieged Daraya
June 8, 2016 Comments Offon UN: Syrian government still holding up food aid for besieged Daraya


The United Nations is still waiting for Syrian government agreement for an aid convoy to enter the besieged town of Daraya, UN officials said on Tuesday.

“The blockage of aid is a political issue,” UN spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told a regular UN briefing in Geneva. “Daraya is 12 km (7.5 miles) from Damascus, so it can be done but we need the political go-ahead from the government.”

Last week Syria’s government, under pressure from its ally Russia and other countries belonging to the International Syria Support Group overseeing the peace process, allowed the first UN aid convoy into Daraya since late 2012.

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UN: Syrian government still holding up food aid for besieged Daraya

 

[Bleipriester]

Stupid Sally. The ceasefire in Daraya is over. It was the second Daraya truce the Islamists break.

The daily breaches of truces in Syria by terrorists are recorded by Russia.
www.sana.sy/en

 

[Bleipriester]

The government allowed aid to reach 19 besieged areas across the country.

Watch here aid delivery in Daraya:

Humanitarian aid convoy arrives in beleaguered Darayya: photos

 

[irosie91]

The government allowed aid to reach 19 besieged areas across the country.

Watch here aid delivery in Daraya:

Humanitarian aid convoy arrives in beleaguered Darayya: photos

nice of "the government" I have no doubt that ASSAD is volunteering in soup kitchens
thruout the land

 

[irosie91]

Stupid Sally. The ceasefire in Daraya is over. It was the second Daraya truce the Islamists break.

The daily breaches of truces in Syria by terrorists are recorded by Russia.
www.sana.sy/en

^^^^^^^ ROFLMAO

 

[Bleipriester]

Stupid Sally. The ceasefire in Daraya is over. It was the second Daraya truce the Islamists break.

The daily breaches of truces in Syria by terrorists are recorded by Russia.
www.sana.sy/en

^^^^^^^ ROFLMAO

"Terrorist groups breached the cessation of hostilities agreement in Syria 5 times in the past 24 hours all in Damascus countryside, raising the total number of breaches to 640 since the agreement came into effect on 27 February, the Russian Coordination Center said."
Terrorist groups breach cessation of hostilities 5 times in 24 hours – Syrian Arab News Agency

 

[irosie91]

Stupid Sally. The ceasefire in Daraya is over. It was the second Daraya truce the Islamists break.

The daily breaches of truces in Syria by terrorists are recorded by Russia.
www.sana.sy/en

^^^^^^^ ROFLMAO

"Terrorist groups breached the cessation of hostilities agreement in Syria 5 times in the past 24 hours all in Damascus countryside, raising the total number of breaches to 640 since the agreement came into effect on 27 February, the Russian Coordination Center said."
Terrorist groups breach cessation of hostilities 5 times in 24 hours – Syrian Arab News Agency

IVAN DENISOVICH----appreciates your confidence in RUSSIAN news sources

 

[rhodescholar]

Looks like we have a rea live russian internet troll posing as an assad/putin/iran apologist, amongst the most vile scum that can be found on this earth. That it is using the usual laughable russian "news" sources only adds to the comedic nature of its posts.

If only the US had a real president instead of the fraud in the white house now...putin must have been jerking himself off twice a day for the last 8 years; he knows he'll never have a more pathetic toad to run over in the white house than obama.

 

[irosie91]

Looks like we have a rea live russian internet troll posing as an assad/putin/iran apologist, amongst the most vile scum that can be found on this earth. That it is using the usual laughable russian "news" sources only adds to the comedic nature of its posts.

If only the US had a real president instead of the fraud in the white house now...putin must have been jerking himself off twice a day for the last 8 years; he knows he'll never have a more pathetic toad to run over in the white house than obama.

Looks like we have a rea live russian internet troll posing as an assad/putin/iran apologist, amongst the most vile scum that can be found on this earth. That it is using the usual laughable russian "news" sources only adds to the comedic nature of its posts.

If only the US had a real president instead of the fraud in the white house now...putin must have been jerking himself off twice a day for the last 8 years; he knows he'll never have a more pathetic toad to run over in the white house than obama.

now now scholar-----Obama is doing the best he can. I do not like your "pathetic toad"--
characterization------not nice. He is on his way out---anyway. Do you have any other commentary-----what do you think the USA should do with ASSAD, PUTIN, IRAN? and why-----how would you justify any action at all?