Stranded Syrian refugees get first aid in weeks

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he UN says it has for the first time in weeks delivered aid to thousands of Syrian refugees stranded on the border with Jordan.

A group of relief agencies said they had completed delivery of a month’s worth of food and hygiene supplies.

More than 75,000 people had been without aid since June when Jordan sealed the border after a deadly attack there by so-called Islamic State.

Conditions in the Rukban and Hadalat camps are said to be desperate.

“Unable either to cross the border or turn back, the situation facing these women, men and children has grown more dire by the day,” said a joint statement by the UN World Food Programme (WFP), refugee agency (UNHCR), children’s agency Unicef, and International Organization for Migration (IOM).

It said the refugees had insufficient food and water, and were sheltering in makeshift tents in temperatures of up to 50C.

Struggling to survive in no-man’s land

The agencies said they delivered 650 tonnes of provisions over a three-day period. But Jordan has said it will not allow future aid deliveries to the area, out of security concerns, the Associated Press news agency reported.

Map showing locations of Rukban and Hadalat

The WFP said drones had been used for the first time to monitor the distribution of the aid, which included sugar, lentils, rice, dates and bread.

Reports of thousands of people stranded at the border point, known as the “berm”, began to emerge at the end of last year. The numbers swelled due to tight restrictions imposed by Jordan on allowing people to cross.

It sealed the border entirely after seven security personnel were killed in a suicide truck bomb attack on a military post in the Rukban area.

Jordan is hosting more than 655,000 of the 4.85 million Syrians registered as refugees with the UN.

Officials say more than one million other Syrians are living there, including those who arrived before the uprising against Mr Assad began in 2011.

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