International Red Cross humanitarian aid finally reaches Syria

After weeks of atrocities, Bashar-Al-Assad regime gave in to heightened pressure from prominent world leaders and allowed medical help to reach Syria on Friday. Volunteers of Red Crescent have already evacuated seven wounded from the captive city of Homs to Syria’s Al Amin Hospital. They have also managed to shift twenty other unhurt Syrians to safety.

The beginning of evacuation has provided some measure of relief to ordinary Syrians who have been held captive for days under intense shelling and gun fire. The Red Cross has expressed that they would request Syrian authorities for a two-hour break each day to carry out humanitarian aid in the affected parts of the country, including Homs. It has further stated that their relief work would include every sick and injured in Syria who needs medical attention.

Red Crescent vehicles are to reach Syria to start evacuation of all foreign journalists who have entered the country incognito. It has been claimed that an armed group in Syria has refused to hand over bodies of two slain journalists and an injured one to the International rescue team unless ordinary Syrians are taken to safety.

But the immediate challenge before the humanitarian aid workers in Syria are reaching out to people with food and medical help which are of real scarcity. Even if shelling stops, the horrors of Syria crisis is going to take years to come before it starts disappearing from the mind of its people.