Syria: Pressure grows for air drops of humanitarian aid to besieged areas

SYRIA -- The first humanitarian aid convoy in four years has entered the rebel-held Syrian town of Darayya near Damascus, besieged by government forces.

But food was not among the relief delivered on Wednesday, despite reports of children facing starvation.

But air operations of another type continue to make life hell for civilians in Syria, with reports of more barrel bombs being dropped on Aleppo.

Peace talks to try to put an end to the five year old conflict remain at a standstill.

The UN humanitarian agency OCHA said the convoy to Darayya consisted of medicine, vaccines, nutritional items (not food) and baby milk.

A UN spokeswoman said food parcels and wheat flour were sent to the rebel-held town of Mouadamiya.

The UN Security Council will hold a special meeting at the end of this week to discuss aid deliveries to besieged areas of Syria. The US, UK and France have called for air drops to go ahead.

On May 17, members of the International Syria Support Group agreed in Vienna that the UN World Food Programme should air drop food, medicine and water to Syria’s besieged communities starting on June 1, if humanitarian access was denied by either side.

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isis will seize the food and sell it

Sure, some of it will be captured and sold ... though the ISIS fighters will not be eating well by this point either. Certainly standing by and doing nothing while people starve is an unacceptable behaviour.

Sure, some of it will be captured and sold ... though the ISIS fighters will not be eating well by this point either. Certainly standing by and doing nothing while people starve is an unacceptable behaviour.

or part of their psyco leaders plans