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Warnings increase amid fears of closing last aid lifeline in Syria

International and UN organizations press for maintaining the flow of humanitarian aid to northwest Syria through Bab al-Hawa crossing, in light of fears of a humanitarian catastrophe in case the mandate for cross-border aid was not renewed.
Syrian children fight over goods taken from a truck that rebels captured at Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, near Aleppo, Syria, July 20, 2012.

ALEPPO, Syria — Doctors Without Borders (MSF) recently called on the United Nations Security Council member states to renew the mechanism for the provision of humanitarian aid into Syria via the Turkish al-Yarubiyah border crossing, which is located on the opposite side of Bab al-Hawa crossing in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib. The UN resolution on cross-border aid into Syria expires July 10.

MSF said in a press release June 19, “More than 4 million people in northwest Syria will lose access to desperately needed medical and humanitarian aid if the United Nations Security Council fails to renew its mandate for cross-border aid by July 10.”

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