The European Commission has said that on Friday it will launch an operation to send 50 tons of aid to Syria, through neighboring Turkey.
The healthcare equipment will depart from EU warehouses in Dubai and then Adana, Turkey, and will then be delivered to Syria "in the coming days," it said in a statement.
Then, additional aid of about 46 tons will be sent from Denmark to Adana, while in Syria it will be distributed by the United Nations Children's Agency (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization.
UNICEF has said that more than a million people, mostly women and children, have been displaced in Syria since the start of the rebel offensive that has resulted in the ouster of Bashar al-Assad's regime.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has said she will discuss humanitarian aid again when she meets Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey on Tuesday.
"With such a hostile situation on the ground, our help for the people in Syria is even more important," she was quoted as saying.
The Commission has said that it has managed to collect four million euros to "address the most urgent humanitarian needs", bringing the total figure to 163 million euros.
The brutal Assad regime has been toppled by the Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, after nearly 14 years of civil war, which has killed over 500,000 people and displaced millions more.
Assad and his family are in Russia, after the asylum that was approved directly by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
In recent years, HTS, a militant Islamist group, has broken ties with Al-Qaeda, and has attempted to present itself as a pragmatic alternative to the Syrian government.
However, there are concerns about abuses committed by the group, as well as links to other terrorist groups.
HTS is a terrorist organization declared by the United States and the European Union./ REL (A2 Televizion)
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