AlHijjah 24, 1433, Nov 9, 2012, SPA -- The United States announced Friday plans to increase humanitarian assistance to help those affected by the conflict in Syria. At the Syria Humanitarian Forum in Geneva, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary Kelly Clements announced that the United States is providing more than $34 million in additional humanitarian assistance in Syria, the State Department said in a statement. “With this new assistance, the United States is providing more than $165 million in humanitarian aid to help those suffering inside Syria and refugees in the neighboring countries," the statement said. According to the State Department statement, the humanitarian assistance is targeting four priority areas: winterization, child protection and gender-based violence prevention, health, and medical transport. The statement said that the assistance will help meet winterization needs in Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon, and keep families warm during the coming winter. It will support child protection issues, and provide psychological support and education. It will support an immunization campaign that will protect up to one million children, and it will support the transportation of wounded Syrians from the Lebanon-Syria border.
