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Sorry - this page has been removed. WFP alarmed by pictures of Isis logos on its Syria food parcels
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This could be because it launched early, our rights have expired, there was a legal issue, or for another reason. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said it is extremely concerned by photographs showing its food parcels being handed out in Syria with Islamic State logos on them.
Images circulating on social media show food being distributed from cardboard boxes with “Islamic State in Syria” labels pasted over the WFP logo.
For further information, please contact: The militant Islamist group, which controls large swaths of Syria and northern Iraq, is known as Islamic State or Islamic State in Syria (Isis).
“WFP condemns this manipulation of desperately needed food aid inside Syria,” said Muhannad Hadi, WFP’s emergency regional coordinator, in a statement late on Monday. The agency was trying to confirm the authenticity of the images, it said.
The photographs seemed to have been taken in Deir Hafr village, about 31 miles (50km) from Aleppo, where last August WFP delivered enough food to feed 8,500 people for a month.
WFP rations are distributed in many areas by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (Sarc). In September, Isis raided Sarc warehouses where food rations may have been stored, WFP said.