Meanings of besieged areas in English

The statement said the U.N. should amend the classification of besieged areas.

The UN said it hoped to start delivering aid to some besieged areas in Syria within 24 hours.

Some 250,000 people remain trapped in besieged areas of the city.

Aid deliveries to besieged areas had been a key part of the cessation of hostilities deal brokered last week.

The UN says it hopes to start delivering aid to some besieged areas in Syria within the next 24 hours.

Now the rebels are on the brink of defeat, and thousands of people remain in besieged areas in the city.

Polio has broken out and people in besieged areas may face malnutrition, but violence and red tape have obstructed aid efforts.

The Assad government manipulates relief efforts to deprive Syrians in besieged areas outside government control from much needed services, the letter said.

This comes after the UN has said aid deliveries to some besieged areas in Syria could begin within the next 24 hours.

This has involved sealing off besieged areas and denying access to food and other essentials including water, healthcare, electricity and gas, employment and money.

Blockades have been used mostly by the government but also on a smaller scale by rebels to prevent food and medicine entering besieged areas.

Aid must be allowed to cross conflict lines, enter besieged areas during humanitarian pauses, and cross borders where this is the most efficient route.

Roughly 400,000 Syrians are living in besieged areas, where they lack access to basic supplies including food and medicine.

Ms Schwalger said New Zealand supports calls for a humanitarian assessment mission to besieged areas, as there are reports there's a lack of medical treatment.

All other besieged areas were out of bounds, resulting in well-publicised starvation deaths among children in the insurgent-held town of Madaya, near the Lebanese border.

Medical workers say they are having trouble reaching besieged areas, and fighters have already killed four healthcare workers in Aden in the past few days.