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UN official urges rapid scale-up of Syria aid, announces $8 million CERF allocation
Summary
A United Nations official told the council that Syria’s humanitarian crisis remains severe and announced an additional $8 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund to boost relief operations amid funding shortfalls and access constraints.
A United Nations official told the council that the humanitarian crisis in Syria remains severe and announced an additional $8,000,000 from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support a rapid scale-up of relief operations in the country.
The official outlined three immediate priorities: preserving and rebuilding essential services, protecting civilians and displaced people, and ensuring women and girls are not marginalized in recovery efforts. The speaker said the UN response is “only a third funded” and urged the international community to coordinate funding and logistics to reach people across Syria.
The official said nearly 15,000,000 people require humanitarian health support, about 13,000,000 face acute food insecurity, and disruptions to water and electricity — including fighting around the Tishrin Dam in eastern Aleppo — are affecting hundreds of thousands of people. The World Food…
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