Humanitarian relief convoys have departed to deliver aid to three besieged Syrian towns, such as Madaya, for the second time this week.
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About 50 trucks are part of the latest convoy that left for Madaya.
The town, which is near the border with Lebanon, has been besieged by pro-Syrian government forces for months.
“Syrians are suffering and dying across the country because starvation is being used as a weapon of war by both the Syrian government and armed groups”, Luther said.
The UN source said there were no plans to evacuate from Madaya the 400 residents whom UN officials had said needed treatment urgently.
A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed that the new convoy was travelling from Damascus to Madaya.
When the aid got into Kefraya, Fouaa and Madaya on Monday, the residents assured that the terrorists were selling the food aids which were delivered to these towns.
The two towns located in Syria’s northwest, which has been under siege by rebels, also received aid early this week.
The Correspondent meanwhile, reported that residents in Kefraya and Fouaa call upon the United Nations representatives to get in to the two towns in order to inspect the humanitarian situation there.
More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in nearly five years of conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a brutal civil war. A similar convoy is headed Thursday to the villages of Foua and Kfarya in the northern Idlib that are besieged by rebels.
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All parties to the conflict are using siege warfare, encircling populated areas, preventing civilians from leaving and blocking humanitarian access in an attempt to force opponents to surrender.
