The food situation for Syrians trapped by the civil war is severe because of the increased level of violence, the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) said Friday. The WFP said it was distributing ready-to-eat food rations and high-energy biscuits to those displaced by an assault on Banias. "We are gravely concerned about the increased scale of violence throughout the country," Matthew Hollingworth, the WFP operations director in Syria, said in a statement. "We are facing enormous challenges to move around the country." WFP said it was working to distribute assistance to about 10,000 people, mainly women and children, but some of the food-storage warehouses used by WFP in Syria are in areas that have seen heavy fighting.
