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Syria: Failure to renew UN cross-border resolution puts many lives at risk

The failure of Tuesday’s UN Security Council meeting to renew UN cross-border aid into northwest Syria will put many lives at risk and undermine efforts to recover from the recent earthquakes, Islamic Relief is warning. The charity is calling on the Security Council to urgently reconvene and renew the resolution for at least another 12 months.

The resolution that permits the UN to deliver cross-border aid expired on Monday and was expected to be renewed, but the failure to do so has plunged aid operations for millions of people into uncertainty. Around 90% of people in northwest Syria live in poverty and millions depend on cross-border aid for food, medicine and other critical services.

Reacting to the outcome of the Security Council meeting, Ahmed Mahmoud, Islamic Relief’s Head of Mission in Syria and Turkiye, says:

If the UN Security Council does not urgently reconvene and agree to renew the resolution then vital UN aid will stop coming across the border at a time when record numbers of people are in need.

“This comes at a terrible time, with 4.4 million people in northwest Syria in critical need of aid right now. It is five months since the earthquake hit and massive reconstruction and rehabilitation is urgently required, but this will be hugely disrupted if the resolution is not renewed. Many rising needs are already not being addressed, as attention has shifted away from Syria and international donor governments have reduced their funding. Together with rising food and fuel prices, this is a particularly hard time for people in northwest Syria. 

Islamic Relief has worked in northwest Syria since 2012, before the first cross-border resolution was agreed in 2014. We have seen just how much the resolution has increased aid and access to people in need in areas outside government control. Failure to renew it will hugely increase the already extremely high burden on organisations working in the region.”

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