Syria withholds aid to 900,000, risks new siege in Aleppo - U.N.


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  • Thursday, 05 May 2016

Civil defense members carry a casualty at a site hit by an airstrike in the rebel held area of Aleppo's al-Hallk district, Syria, May 3, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria's government is refusing U.N. demands to deliver aid to hundreds of thousands of people including many in Aleppo, the city at the centre of an eruption of fighting in the past two weeks, U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said on Wednesday.

"We seem to be having new possible besieged areas on our watch, we are having hundreds of relief workers unable to move in Aleppo," he told reporters after chairing a weekly meeting of nations supporting the Syria peace process.

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