Ireland’s foreign affairs and defense minister makes an inspection visit to the flow of humanitarian aid at Bab Al-Hawa crossing
Today, Thursday, Irish Foreign and Defense Minister Simon Coveney visited a number of humanitarian aid distribution points in the Turkish state of Hatay, and a United Nations humanitarian aid center in Reyhanli, on the Syrian border.
The Turkish Anadolu Agency confirmed that Coveney went with the humanitarian aid convoys heading to the “Cilvegozu ” crossing near Bab al-Hawa border crossing, in conjunction with the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the liberated northern Syrian camps due to rainstorms.
The Irish Minister and his accompanying delegation met with the Governor of Hatay Rahmi Dogan, and the representative of the Turkish Foreign Ministry in the state Ambassador Sardar Cengizu, in addition to the presence of the Irish Ambassador Sonia McEwenis, and they held bilateral talks to discuss the progress of humanitarian aid operations to Syria.
The United Nations confirmed yesterday, Wednesday, that 67,000 people have been displaced to northwestern Syria, as a result of floods, rainfalls and difficult winter conditions.
More than 4 million civilians live in the liberated north of Syria, and more than half of them are in need of humanitarian and relief aid.
Bab al-Hawa crossing is the last outlet through which the United Nations provides humanitarian aid to the displaced in northwestern Syria, after Moscow imposed a reduction in the number of aid crossing points by using its veto in the Security Council.
