{"id":18999,"date":"2012-05-09T11:10:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T07:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=18999"},"modified":"2012-05-09T11:10:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T07:10:46","slug":"red-cross-issues-urgent-appeal-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/red-cross-issues-urgent-appeal-on-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross Issues Urgent Appeal On Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The\u00a0Red Cross<\/a>\u00a0has made an urgent appeal for $27 million for its vital work in Syria.<\/p>\n

To date, it has helped 200,000 victims of the violence across the country. The International Committee for the Red Cross is the only international aid agency working in Syria, and despite\u00a0occasional\u00a0hiccups<\/a>, it has managed to get help to those in need, while others talk only about violence and\u00a0vengeance.<\/p>\n

Any money you donate will go to Syrians displaced by the violence, and to those working with the 24,600 refugees currently living in camps in Turkey.<\/p>\n

The ICRC\u2019s President,\u00a0Jakob Kellenberger, made a rare political statement on the situation in Syria, telling the BBC that he urgently wanted more UN monitors to be sent to the country:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am afraid [the Kofi Annan peace plan] might not succeed, but I really strongly hope it does succeed. But for this to happen, the deployment of the UN observers really [has to be] a rapid deployment. So far, very few are there.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The organisation\u2019s\u00a0priorities<\/a>\u00a0are to:<\/p>\n