Aid Workers in Syria Fear Cholera Spread If Cross-Border Support Halted

An internally displaced boy listens to civil defense members during a cholera awareness campaign, at a camp in northern opposition-held Idlib, Syria September 24, 2022. (Reuters)

Humanitarian workers operating in the last opposition-held part of Syria fear a cholera outbreak sweeping the region will deepen further if the United Nations is forced to stop aid deliveries across the border from Türkiye. 

The area's 4 million people live in dire conditions and rely heavily on the food and medicine that has been brought across the border since a 2014 UN Security Council resolution allowed such deliveries despite the Syrian government's objections.