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UN urges ceasefire for aid to reach Eastern Ghouta

The UN called on Thursday (April 6th) for an urgent ceasefire in Syria's Eastern Ghouta region to allow in desperately needed aid and avoid a repeat of the devastation seen in Aleppo, AFP reported.

"We need a 72-hour pause for Eastern Ghouta, and we need it in the coming days," the head of the UN-backed humanitarian taskforce for Syria, Jan Egeland, told reporters in Geneva.

He warned that the 400,000 people besieged in the area near Damascus "are now suffering alone in the sense that they have a shortage of medical supplies, their hospitals have been bombed, and they are running out of food and other supplies".

Eastern Ghouta, the last remaining opposition stronghold near the capital, has been under a devastating government siege since 2012, and is targeted regularly by airstrikes and artillery.

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