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NGOs make case for keeping UN border crossing into Syria open

The situation in northwest Syria is so nightmarish that some families are abandoning newborns in the streets, according to a humanitarian organization working there.
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Several humanitarian organizations are warning of dire repercussions if the United Nations does not to vote to keep its lone Syrian border crossing open in July.

The Syria director for the nongovernmental organization Save the Children said that it is impossible to match the UN’s cross-border humanitarian deliveries into the war-torn country.

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