BEIRUT – The U.N. World Food Program says it has suspended a food voucher program serving more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees because of a funding crisis.
The WFP says the program provided Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt with vouchers to buy food in local shops.
The U.N. agency said in a statement Monday that without the assistance "many families will go hungry."
WFP executive director Ertharin Cousin says the agency's Syria emergency operations are in critical need of funding — requiring $64 million to support Syrian refugees in December alone.
More than 3 million Syrians have fled the civil war in their homeland.
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