The Humanitarian Situation in Syria Is a Race Against Time, Hamoud Said.

UNICEF representative Angela Kearney said children who have already been traumatized by war were bewildered. She also added that while aid is starting to go into the affected areas, there is still a desperate need for blankets, food, clean water, medical care, and nutritional care. There are discussions underway to open aid corridors from the government-controlled parts of Syria to the rebel-held areas. UNESCO lamented the collapse of several buildings in the Turkish city of Diadbeqid. The organization says it is mobilizing experts to establish a precise inventory with the aim of rapidly securing and stabilizing these sites.