The Growing Syrian Refugee Crisis

UN: 1 Million Syrians Need Emergency Food Aid -- Voice of America

The United Nations says about one million Syrians are living without adequate food and serious fuel shortages and rising violence are disrupting aid distribution across the war-torn country.

U.N. World Food Program spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said the WFP is distributing rations to about 1.5 million people in Syria every month, the vast majority internally displaced. But she says well below the 2.5 million people in need of assistance.

She said the lack of fuel and security in Syria has significantly curtailed the ability of the WFP's main local partner, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, from distributing aid.

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UN Unable to Reach 1 Million Syrians in Need of Food Aid -- Bloomberg
Syrian fighting is preventing food aid getting through to 1m people, says UN -- The Guardian
UN: One million Syrians going hungry due to civil war -- Haaretz/DPA
UN report: One million Syrians in need of food aid -- Deutsche Welle
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