BEIRUT (Reuters) - A food aid delivery reached a besieged suburb of Damascus on Saturday, resident activists said, badly needed after months of isolation but not enough for thousands of trapped civilian who are malnourished and without medicine.
The delivery was the first to the Yarmouk Palestinian district, where 15 people have died of malnutrition and 18,000 are trapped, since forces loyal to President Bashir al-Assad imposed the siege seven months ago.
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