The only border crossing for humanitarian aid in Northeast Syria still closed: Politicians demand opening

The co-president of the department for external affairs in the Autonomous Administration for North and East Syria, Bedran Jiyan Kurd stated that the continuation of the closure of Tal Koçer constitutes a clear politicization of the humanitarian situation and a lack of equal treatment of Syria.
Jiya Kurd further confirmed on Friday during a meeting with the North Press Agency that the decision to close the crossing through a Russian-Chinese Veto and the opening of the Bab Al-Hawa crossing, which connects the areas under the control of Turkey-affiliated and supported armed militias possesses a pure political aspect. Therefore, a reconsideration of the decision is demanded.
Jia Kurd additionally emphasized that the decision to close the Tel Koçer crossing is an injustice to millions of people who live in North and East Syria, both to its inherent people and those who settled to these areas from other parts of Syria, pointing out that the continued closure of the crossing increases the fatal economic and humanitarian consequences as well as the final completion of all measures to uphold the blockade in this region.
The official in the Autonomous Administration called for an identification of cross-border support mechanisms to reach all Syrians, stressing that the Autonomous Administration’s vision of North and East Syria on the issue of the opening of humanitarian crossings indeed is a general vision as they think about the suffering and plight of the Syrians in general.
It is noteworthy that the Tel Koçer border crossing was receiving some international aid until 2020, but it was closed after Russia vetoed the extension of this mechanism, and as a result, the Tel Koçer crossing, which connects northern and eastern Syria with Iraq, was closed.
As a result of the pressures exerted, the delivery of aid was limited to only one border crossing outside the control of the government in 2022, which is the Bab al-Hawa gate in the Idlib region, which was occupied by Turkey and the “Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham” organization (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra), which is classified on the “terrorist” lists of many countries, including Turkey.