GENEVA: The heads of five United Nations agencies on Wednesday made an impassioned call to both sides in Syria’s conflict to allow aid deliveries countrywide, end siege warfare and halt indiscriminate attacks on civilians.

“The war escalates in many areas. The humanitarian situation deteriorates day after day,” the leaders of the UN humanitarian aid office and its children’s, refugee, food and health divisions said in a joint statement.

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