The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) managed to deliver crucial humanitarian aid to Qamishli in northeastern Syria despite massive challenges, the agency said. UNICEF sent 43 trucks containing humanitarian provisions to the town, spokesman Christophe Boulierac told reporters in Geneva late Tuesday. Boulierac quoted Hanaa Singer, the UNICEF representative in Syria, as saying, "The delivery is a significant breakthrough but it is certainly not enough, and we would need more to reach children impacted by the conflict across the country, especially those living in hard-to-reach areas." In northeastern Syria, around 1 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance. A further 5.6 million children in Syria are in urgent need, including more than 2 million living in difficult-to-access areas. Meanwhile, U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Piere Krahenbuhl concluded a humanitarian mission to Damascus, where he met with Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad. UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said Krahenbuhl emphasized the importance of resuming distributions to civilians remaining in or unable to leave the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, and of broadening the humanitarian response to those civilians from Yarmouk who have arrived in areas outside the camp.
