US State Department to provide humanitarian aid for minorities in southern Syria

The US State Department announces that it is donating humanitarian aid for Druze, Christian and Bedouin communities in southern Syria.

The announcement doesn’t specify how much aid has been donated, but it says that it will “support life-saving needs of approximately 60,000 people through targeted provision of food, water and hygiene items as well as the rehabilitation of houses and water systems for when people can safely return home.”

“While hostilities have largely subsided, the security situation remains unpredictable. This has resulted in limited movement of supplies that has affected civilian safety and the ability of the approximately 187,000 displaced individuals to return to their homes,” the State Department statement continues, calling on other countries to join the US in providing aid to the Syrian people.