Humanitarian aid has reached besieged areas of Syria after trucks filled with supplies left Damascus, as the United Nations said a task force seeking humanitarian access throughout the conflict-torn country will meet on Thursday in Geneva. The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria, Yacoub el-Hillo, said in a press release that on Wednesday night the UN reached five towns in urgent need of assistance. “The convoys contained life-saving aid including food, medical supplies and equipment, vaccines, water and sanitation items for almost 100,000 people in need of aid,” Hillo said. At least 100 trucks rolled out of the capital on Wednesday afternoon in the latest delivery of supplies to trapped residents, said Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Gaziantep, near Turkey’s border with Syria. “Undoubtedly this is progress for the thousands trapped in these […]