The
UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said it is extremely concerned by
photographs showing its food parcels being handed out in Syria with Islamic State logos on them. Images circulating on social media show food being distributed from cardboard ...
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said it is extremely concerned
by photographs showing its food parcels being handed out in Syria with Islamic State logos on them.
Images circulating on social media show food being distributed from
cardboard boxes with “Islamic State in Syria” labels pasted over the WFP
logo.
The militant Islamist group, which controls large swaths of Syria and northern Iraq, is known as Islamic State or Islamic State in Syria (Isis).
“WFP condemns this manipulation of desperately needed food aid inside
Syria,” said Muhannad Hadi, WFP’s emergency regional coordinator, in a
statement late on Monday. The agency was trying to confirm the
authenticity of the images, it said.
The photographs seemed to have been taken in Deir Hafr village, about
31 miles (50km) from Aleppo, where last August WFP delivered enough
food to feed 8,500 people for a month.
WFP rations are distributed in many areas by the Syrian Arab Red
Crescent (Sarc). In September, Isis raided Sarc warehouses where food
rations may have been stored, WFP said.
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