(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) NEW YORK, Feb 6 (KUNA) -- UN announced today since mid-January an estimated 1.8 million people in Aleppo city and rural eastern Aleppo in Syria have been cut off from their main source of water, which is under so-called Islamic State (IS) control.
UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters that UN is gravely concerned by the number, and confirmed that the organization continues to respond to the water crisis by supplying fuel to operate 100 deep wells, and is supporting emergency water trucking, reaching nearly one million people in need of water assistance.
Meanwhile, a UN-International Committee of the Red Cross-Syrian Arab Red Crescent inter-agency convoy delivered food, nutrition, health and other emergency items yesterday for 84,000 people in need in hard-to-reach Talbiseh in rural Homs, he said. That area was last reached by a convoy on September 19th 2016.
"This convoy is the first cross-line land delivery in February and only the second in 2017," he said.
The UN called for unconditional, unimpeded and sustained access to all 4.72 million people in hard-to-reach locations across the country, including 643,780 in besieged locations.
UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen Oآ'Brien completed a two-day visit to Jordan today, which is the third-largest host of Syrian refugees in the region.
Dujarric said that during his visit, O'Brien met with senior Jordanian officials, including the head of the Jordanian Armed Forces General Mahmoud Frihat, and Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Mulki. He also visited the Azraq refugee camp. (end) mao.bs
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