Rukban Camp
A U.N.-led delivery of aid, critically needed by thousands of civilians stranded in a camp on the Syrian-Jordanian border, that community leaders were expecting on Saturday has been postponed, a U.N. official said on Friday.
"The planned joint U.N.-Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) humanitarian convoy to Rukban camp has been delayed forlogistical and security reasons," Fadwa AbedRabou Baroud, a Damascus-based U.N. official, told reporters.
In the last three years, tens of thousands of people have fled to the camp from Daesh terrorists-held parts of Syria being targeted by Russian and U.S.-led coalition air strikes.
Syrian refugees stage a protest at Rukban refugee camp located on the Syrian-Jordanian border on October 10, 2018 in Jordan. Bashar al-Assad regime has been preventing any kind of humanitarian assistance entering a refugee camp in Rukban, Syria's border to Jordan, for the last 10 months. Children who are trying to survive in the the camp -- cut off from aid since January although it has been on the agenda of the UN -- are waiting for emergency assistance to stay alive. Currently, a total of 60,000 displaced civilians are living in the camp in the middle of a desert. Located in the deserts of Syria's border to Jordan, Rukban camp is controlled by groups which are under influence of the Free Syrian Army.
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