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Syria: UN aid trucked in to desperate Madaya
Relief for residents of blockaded town threatened by starvation
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LORRIES bringing food and medicine to the besieged civilians of Madaya, near the Lebanese border, entered the town yesterday as part of a large-scale UN-supported aid operation.

The town, about 15 miles north-west of Damascus, has been blockaded for months by government troops and Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah.

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