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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 370

Syrian humanitarian crisis

In this September 10, 2018 file photo, members of a Turkish pro-government aid group, wait for the departure of trucks carrying humanitarian aid destined for Idlib, Syria, in Istanbul. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
July 8, 2022, 7:53 am
After impasse, UN Security Council extends talks on cross-border aid to Syria
Thursday vote scrapped amid disagreement between Moscow and West over ongoing humanitarian deliveries via Turkey
By Philippe RATER
People queue to receive humanitarian aid packages at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh governorate on August 18, 2021. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
August 23, 2021, 2:45 pm
Millions in Syria and Iraq at risk of losing access to water, food, electricity
More than 12 million people in the 2 countries are affected, plus another 4 million in Lebanon facing critical water shortages
By Bassam Mroue
Syrian children walk in the mud after heavy rain at a displacement camp outside Shamarin, near the border with Turkey in the northern Aleppo province, on December 6, 2018. (Nazeer AL-KHATIB / AFP)
December 9, 2018, 11:07 pm
UN sends urgent aid to hundreds of thousands of Syrians
Agency says major humanitarian operation facilitated by Jordan will see 300 trucks delivering 11,200 metric tons of food, shelter, and medical supplies
By Agencies
Israeli troops shut down the army's 'Operation Good Neighbor' project that helped thousands of Syrians after Syrian dictator Bashar Assad took control of the area bordering Israel, in September 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 13, 2018, 9:59 pm
As war nears end, IDF shutters ‘Good Neighbor’ Syrian aid program
As dictator Bashar Assad sets up in area near Israel, Israel closes border clinic, halts shipments of food to war-torn area
By Judah Ari Gross
An IDF soldier at the Mazor Ladach field clinic on the Golan Heights, where soldiers and foreign volunteers provided medical care to some 6,800 Syrians between August 2017 and August 2018. (Courtesy IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
August 3, 2018, 3:10 pm
As Israel’s Syria aid operation winds down, IDF begins dismantling field clinic
Move comes after Operation Good Neighbor ‘frozen’ amid Assad regime and Russian offensive that retakes control of border area
By ToI Staff
Displaced Syrian children from the Daraa province fleeing shelling by pro-government forces wait in a makeshift camp to cross the Jordanian border, near the town of Nasib, southern Syria, on July 1, 2018.( AFP / Mohamad ABAZEED)
July 2, 2018, 2:19 pm
Israeli communities collect toys, candy, clothes for Syrian refugees
‘These are our neighbors,’ Golan Regional Council says, calling on residents to give displaced kids ‘a moment of sweet, innocent joy’
By Michael Bachner
A displaced Syrian girl from the Daraa province fleeing shelling by pro-government forces carries a toddler in a makeshift camp in the province of Quneitra, southwestern Syria, near the border with the Golan Heights, on June 22, 2018. (AFP/Mohamad Abazeed)
July 1, 2018, 8:30 pm
IDF doesn’t expect mass border breaches by Syrians fleeing Assad offensive
Officer in charge of Israel’s Good Neighbor humanitarian aid program says some assistance comes from anonymous Arab states; Israel to continue helping, even as fighting intensifies
By Judah Ari Gross
Israeli army medics bring injured Syrian nationals into Israel for medical treatment on June 29, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 30, 2018, 9:35 pm
Israel takes in 6 Syrians hurt in latest fighting, 4 of them newly orphaned kids
Army says injured were brought over in ‘unique, complicated medical operation’ on Friday night, received first aid from soldiers before being moved to Israeli hospital
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF officers on the Golan Heights managing an operation on June 28, 2018 to provide humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in tent encampments in southwestern Syria. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 29, 2018, 12:24 pm
IDF sends aid to Syrians fleeing Daraa in overnight ‘Good Neighbor’ operation
300 tents, 28 tons of food, including baby food, and 30 tons of clothing and shoes delivered; tens of thousands seek to escape Assad offensive
By Judah Ari Gross
Smoke rises above opposition held areas of the city of Daraa during airstrikes by Syrian regime forces on June 28, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Mohamad ABAZEED)
June 29, 2018, 9:49 am
Facing possible Syrian influx, Druze MK calls to set up refugee camp on border
Opposition lawmaker Saleh Saad says ‘the State of Israel cannot remain indifferent to the humanitarian situation,’ as Assad’s army bombards south
By ToI Staff
This June 22, 2018 photo provided by Nabaa Media, a Syrian opposition media outlet, shows people who fled from Daraa setting up a tent in the village of Bregia, near the Syria-Israel border, southern Syria. (Nabaa Media, via AP)
June 28, 2018, 11:57 pm
Amid fierce fighting, Israel fears flood of Syrian refugees converging on border
As Assad’s army bombards south and displaces more than 50,000, Israel reportedly vows nobody will be allowed in — but prepares to supply humanitarian aid
By Michael Bachner
A picture taken on February 25, 2018, shows a Syrian man walking next to damaged buildings following regime air strikes in the Syrian rebel-held town of Douma, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. (AFP PHOTO / HAMZA AL-AJWEH)
February 27, 2018, 11:16 am
Syria ‘humanitarian pause’ announced by Russia takes effect
Eastern Ghouta residents mock Putin initiative for 5-hour corridor for them to leave, announced in defiance of UN call for full ceasefire
By Agencies
This photo, provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows a civil defense worker carrying a wounded man after airstrikes hit a rebel-held suburb near Damascus, Syria, February 5, 2018. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)
February 9, 2018, 1:51 pm
UN Security Council declines to call for Syria ceasefire as fighting worsens
Cessation of hostilities ‘not realistic,’ Russian envoy says, since anti-Assad ‘terrorists’ won’t abide by it; humanitarian chief says situation worst since 2015
By AP
Karim, an infant from the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus, who was injured weeks ago in a government bombing of the market of his hometown. (Damascus Media Center via AP)
December 20, 2017, 1:34 am
Baby who lost eye in airstrike becomes symbol for Syrian activists
Weeks-old Karim had his skull crushed and mother killed in two separate government attacks on besieged hometown in rebel-held eastern Ghouta
By Sarah El Deeb
This photo provided on October 30, 2017, by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), shows a severely malnourished child at the al-Kahef hospital in Kafr Batna, Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, Syria. (UN OCHA via AP)
December 14, 2017, 8:36 pm
400,000 face starvation in Damascus as Assad blocks humanitarian relief
Civilians trapped in suburbs in the city’s east without enough food, fuel or medicine for the winter
By PHILIP ISSA
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