London: Hope mixed with anger and disbelief greeted aid workers bringing the first food and medical supplies in months to the residents of a besieged Syrian town. "You could see a mixture of hope in people's eyes and disbelief that this thing was actually happening," Pawel Krzysiek of the International Committee of the Red Cross told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Tuesday. "Many people were coming cheering, shaking our hands, but some of them were shouting angrily 'why did it take you so long?'" he said, speaking by phone from Damascus. The aid convoy arrived on Monday, bringing the first food and medical supplies for months to the western town of Madaya, where 40,000...
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