“Earlier this morning, a WFP plane dropped the first cargo of 21 tonnes of items into Deir Ezzor,” in eastern Syria, UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien said on 25 February, 2016.
The air-drop is part of a larger effort to lift the starvation siege which has been imposed by both ISIS and the Assad-regime on civilians living in the city for more than a year now.
“A Cargo plane accompanied by two warplanes airdropped food aid shipments over the regime-held territories of Deir Ezzor,” a D24 correspondent said.
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