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UK medical relief aid arrives in Syria via Turkey

12 April 2013 02:58 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Dozens of ambulances dedicated by the UK-based non-profit organization SKT Welfare to Syria have arrived in the war-torn country via the Turkish border town of Reyhanli, APA reports quoting Press TV.

The 28 ambulances are part of the British entity’s relief aid which also includes a medical emergency center for children, Turkish media reported on Tuesday.

Turkey’s Helping Hand Foundation has been involved in the dispatch of the relief aids to its next-door neighbor.

On Monday, an international children charity organization called on the United Nations Security Council to make efforts to protect two million Syrian children who need help amid the Arab country’s two-year unrest.

In a report to the council, Save the Children warned that the Syrian children have been under direct harm, being recruited by the foreign-backed militants in Syria.

Last month, the organization said that the Syrian children were being shot at, tortured, and raped.

Several weeks ago, video footage surfaced online showing the militants in Syria recruiting children and teenagers. The video showed the commander of a US-backed group in the northern province of Aleppo saying that when the children arrive, they are children, but when they leave, they become killing machines.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Many people, including large numbers of army and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.

The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and that a very large number of the militants operating in the country are foreign nationals.