Sentences with phrase «aid convoys»
"Aid convoys" refers to a group of vehicles or ships that transport humanitarian assistance, such as food, medicine, or supplies, to areas affected by conflict, disaster, or poverty. Full definition
Russia stands accused by international observers of bombing humanitarian aid convoys on their way into besieged Syrian towns and stifling efforts to ease suffering in the country while they support Assad and allegedly cover him while he conducts chemical warfare against his own citizens.
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Ed Miliband opened his conference speech by talking about the British aid convoy volunteer who has been kidnapped by Islamic State (IS).
Ed Miliband opens his conference speech talking about the British aid convoy volunteer kidnapped by Islamic State.
We can only imagine that having heard the news, Vladimir Putin has called off his bear hunt and is rushing back to the Kremlin to call off Russian airstrikes on hospitals, schools, and humanitarian aid convoys around Aleppo.»
But it's unclear how rebels or terrorists, who live among Syrian civilians in east Ghouta, could retain sufficient territory to stage mortar or artillery attacks against medical evacuations or aid convoys under such heavy bombardment.
The roads in and out of eastern Ghouta, where the UN Security Council intended to send aid, have been peppered with airstrikes, making aid convoys» journey treacherous.
He is believed to have converted to Islam in his early twenties, and left two young children in Britain when he travelled to Gaza in 2009 as part of a controversial Gaza aid convoy organised by former Labour and Respect MP George Galloway.
Later, driving in an interchurch aid convoy to the town of Jenin, we pass military checkpoints where Palestinians wait in long lines.
In September last year he induced Corbyn to agree that a Russian attack on a Syrian aid convoy sounded awfully like a war crime.
But the Albanian leader, Sali Berisha, said this morning that he could not guarantee the safety of humanitarian aid convoys.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said around 20 civilians were killed in the air strikes that hit an aid convoy in northern Syria.
The World Food Programme's been able to get an aid convoy through an Egyptian border crossing into Gaza for the first time since 2007.
The Red Cross said its aid convoy has now reached Homs having finally been granted access by the regime.
In this case, there was no evidence of participation beyond the aid convoy.