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Planned aid convoy to Syria's Ghouta postponed: Red Cross
An aid convoy planned for on Thursday to bring assistance to besieged civilians in Syria's rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta will not go through, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
“The convoy for Thursday is postponed, as the situation is evolving on the ground, which doesn't allow us to carry out the operation in such conditions,” ICRC spokeswoman Ingy Sedky told AFP.
The joint convoy between the ICRC, United Nations, and Syrian Arab Red Crescent was expected to deliver aid to Eastern Ghouta's main town of Douma on Thursday.
A reporter contributing to AFP saw the trucks on Thursday parked on the edges of Eastern Ghouta, at the government-controlled Wafideen checkpoint.
It marks the second time this week that desperately needed aid operations to Eastern Ghouta have been disrupted by military developments.
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