(MENAFN) An aid party of trucks carrying urgently needed humanitarian supplies started going into the rebel-held Syrian area of the Eastern Ghouta.
The 46 trucks are the first to get to the besieged enclave since mid-February, despite a recent UN-backed ceasefire and short daily truces ordered by Russia.
According to the BBC's Jeremy Bowen, if the group of trucks managed to deliver their food and aid supplies to the 27,500 people it is supposed to, despite nearby bombing, it would be a "significant beginning."
According to Reuters, the government of Syria has taken out 70 percent of the supplies before the trucks left, which included surgical materials and trauma kits.
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