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.
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.
“There is no way NGOs can scale up to replace UN cross-border deliveries,” said Sonia Khush.
The organizations Save the Children, the International Rescue Committee, CARE and Mercy Corps participated in a briefing Tuesday about the upcoming UN Security Council vote on Syria’s cross-border aid route at Bab al-Hawa between Turkey and northwest Syria.
