[RED DEMOCRATICA] UN agency fears for 18,000 in Yarmouk as Syria blocks food shipments

 

Quote of the Day | Excerpts from UN Dispatch | South Sudan: Parliament must approve extension of UN mission Created for eleccion@yahoogroups.com |  Web Version   April 21, 2014 FOLLOW THE UN FOUNDATION     News covering the UN and the world SIGN UP | FORWARD | ADVERTISE | DONATE Top Story UN agency fears for 18,000 in Yarmouk as Syria blocks food shipments United Nations Relief and Works Agency workers fear that 18,000 people in Yarmouk, an isolated district in Damascus, face starvation as the Syrian government continues to prevent food shipments. "It is unprecedented in living memory for a UNRWA-assisted population to be subject to abject desperation in this way and the sheer humanitarian facts cry out for a response," says Chris Gunness, an agency spokesman. 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