The border crossing allows the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to provide food, medicine and other basic items to the 4.1 million mainly displaced inhabitants of Syria's northwest Idlib province.
The U.N. Security Council agreed to another six-month entension for cross-border humanitarian aid deliveries to more than 4 million Syrians in the rebel-held northwest.
The unanimous vote by the 15-nation council on Monday to approve a resolution co-sponsored by Brazil and Switzerland means aid deliveries can continue until July 10 through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing from Turkey and northern Syria.
The U.N. and other aid agencies scrambled to step up relief as Israel and Hamas began a four-day truce.
More than 12,250 people have been killed – including 101 U.N. staff helping Palestinian refugees and at least 4,300 children – and 32,300 others injured in the Gaza war, officials said.
Medical facilities are running out of supplies and fuel, which Israel hasn't allowed into Gaza for a month now.
A new U.N. report finds the number of women and girls living in conflict-affected nations doubled in five years.
'Minutes to midnight': World hits 1.4° of post-industrial warming as climate summit in Dubai opens with new loss and damage fund and report disputing a leader's credibility.
Almost a quarter of the world faces human-induced drought, and 85% of those live in low- or middle-income countries.
A handful of fossil fuel producing countries, petrochemical industries and lobbyists show no interest in a strong, restrictive and legally binding instrument.
An internal audit found a US$31 million funding gap and deficiencies in U.N. Climate Change's Transparency Division.
