One million Syrians are short of food, prevents Pam

GENEVE (Reuters) - One million Syrians will miss about food, mainly in war zones, because of restrictions on the distribution of assistance provided by the government on Tuesday announced the World Food Programme .

This UN agency distributes food rations to 1.5 million people per month in this country, while 2.5 million Syrians in need, said Elisabeth Byrs, spokesman Pam.

The civilian population especially lack of bread and there is also a shortage of carburant.

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Pam fails to increase its assistance and only a handful of humanitarian organizations are allowed to distribute aid to Syria, where 21 months of civil war have left more than 60,000 dead from the Nations unies.

"Our main partner, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (Cras) is overwhelmed and no longer has the ability to grow its business," said the spokesman at a press briefing Genève.

"The Pam arranges to import fuel for humanitarian purposes, set the impact of a severe shortage of fuel across the country which affects the ability of the agency to distribute food and find time for trucks to distribute ".

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Pam has been authorized "special" of the Damascus government to import oil from neighboring Lebanon to fuel tanks on trucks distributing aid Syrie.

The deteriorating security has forced Pam to evacuate its staff from the cities of Aleppo Homs, Tartous and Qamisly.

insecurity delaying deliveries of food and vessels must now unload their cargo at the port of Beirut instead of Tartus, according to Elisabeth Byrs.

In December, the UN had launched an appeal for $ 1.5 billion of funds to alleviate the suffering of the population civile.

The number of Syrian refugees abroad and registered as such has increased from 500,000 to nearly 600,000 in the space of a month, according to statistics from the UN .

Stephanie Nebehay, Jean-Loup Fievet for service français