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Humanitarian Crisis Threatens Syria, Wheat Harvest Collapses This Year


Fri 25 Jun 2021 | 08:08 PM
Ahmed Moamar

A spokesman for the World Health Organization (WHO) said that not extending the authorization of sending humanitarian aids to Syria may lead to a new catastrophe in the northwest areas of the country.

Christian Lindmeier, the spokesman for the WHO, added over a briefing during a press conference held today, Friday, in Geneva, Switzerland, that failure of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in renewing the authorization that expires on July 10, may result in preventing the anti-corona vaccines and others in ill-fated in Syria.

It is worth noting that Antonio Guterres, General-Secretary of the UN, has entreated the UNSC to offer humanitarian aids to the displaced Syrians across the borders for another year.

Guterres warns that if the UNSC, which comprises 15 members, fails in securing sufficient aids to the Syrians will result in devastating consequences.

However, General-Secretary of the inter International Federation of the Cross and Red Crescent  Societies ,Gagan Chapagin, said on June 18, after a tour in Syrian cities of Homs and Douma, that it is time to convert the direct humanitarian aid, that limits to provide food and medicines, to sustainable ways of livelihood.

He went on to say that he headed for seeing Douma's hospital which was destructed except pillars of the gate.

But the locals built another hospital with 40 beds and sought to get medical supplies and apparatuses to furnish it.

Draught hit Syria badly this year so hopeful expectations of a great wheat harvest went nowhere.

The Syrian government bet on harvesting about one million tons of wheat in 2021 but the real figure was in limits of 400 thousand tons.

The Minister of Agriculture Hassan Qatna said that the country hasn't seen such a bad season in its modern history.

Also, Syrian is still suffering from the prolonged civil war that broke out ten years ago and it seems there no light at the end of the tunnel.