Convoys organized by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the United Nations delivered the food from late Thursday into early hours of Friday, after the U.N. said the Syrian government had approved access to 15 of the 19 besieged areas within Syria.
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However, the government did not approve delivery of three burns kits that would have been enough to treat about 30 people with dressings and pain killers, rejecting them from the approved list, Jasarevic said.
On Thursday, UN special envoy Staffan di Mistura said the Syrian government had given permission for humanitarian aid to reach 19 areas under siege, the BBC reported.
The first deliveries of food aid since 2012 have reached the besieged Damascus suburb of Darayya.
In a video posted online by media activists in Daraya, an official with the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said the organisation had delivered about 480 food rations that would feed around 2,400 individuals for a month.
An estimated 8,000 people live in Daraya, one of the first towns in Syria to erupt in anti-government demonstrations in 2012 and one of the first under a strict regime siege the same year.
Trucks carrying medicine, food and flour entered the town that was among the first to report protests against President Bashar Al-assad’s Government.
Peace talks towards ending a civil war that has killed more than 280,000 people have stalled over issues including lack of humanitarian access.
He made the comments after the weekly meeting of the Syria humanitarian taskforce, co-chaired by the United States and Russian Federation, which has for months been trying to boost aid supplies to millions of Syrians in need.
This week the SDF, backed by coalition air strikes, cut the road north out of Manbij to the ISIL-held border town of Jarabulus, which the group had used as a transit point for fighters, money and weapons.
The UN estimates that more than 500,000 Syrians are affected, but some groups like the Siege Watch Project put that figure at more than one million.
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“We did get the information today from one main source, but we would like to have more information, that some substantial number of (rebel) fighters appear to have been released”, de Mistura said.
