Syrians trapped without aid near Jordan face starvation
Tens of thousands of Syrians stranded on the Jordanian border face starvation and dehydration, the aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday, calling for an immediate resumption of aid deliveries that were halted after Jordan sealed the border following a suicide attack.
The international community must eventually relocate the more than 60,000 Syrians trapped in the remote desert near the border to safe countries, said the group, adding that Jordan cannot be expected to shoulder the responsibility alone. Abandoning displaced Syrians in the border area or sending them back to war-ravaged Syria are unacceptable options, the group said.
"We see this as a collective responsibility and as a consequence we also see this as a collective failure of the international community to do its duty," said Benoit De Gryse, operations manager at the group, also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF.
