Damascus – In light of the humanitarian truce agreed in Munich last week, Italy has allocated €3 million in favor of Syria’s displaced population. ”The emergency funds want to It bring relief to the suffering of the tens of thousands of Syrian civilians, mostly women and children, fleeing the bombing and the ongoing violence in the north of the country, near Aleppo,” explained the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni. Thanks to a grant of €2 million, the WFP will ensure the distribution of food (vegetables, rice, sugar, flour, vegetable oil) to over 30,000 people – according to UN estimates – on the run towards the Turkish border. Another contribution of €1 million will be entrusted to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Activities (OCHA), for the purchase and distribution of relief items (tents, stoves, fuel, and goods for personal hygiene. (9Colonne)
