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S/2018/369 18-06043 11/20 Humanitarian response 28. United Nations humanitarian agencies and partners reached millions of people in need through all available access modalities, including regular programming from within the Syrian Arab Republic, whereby humanitarian deliveries reach those in need without crossing conflict lines; cross-line convoys, whereby assistance from within the country is delivered across conflict lines; and cross-border deliveries, whereby assistance is provided to those in need from Jordan and Turkey (see table 3). In addition to the United Nations and its partners, non-governmental organizations continued to deliver life-saving assistance to people in need. Local authorities in many areas controlled by non-State armed opposition groups also continued to provide services where possible. Table 3 People reached by the United Nations and other organizations through all modalities, March 2018 Organization Number of people reached Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – International Organization for Migration 28 000 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 2 927 000 United Nations Children’s Fund >4 000 000 United Nations Development Programme 1 103 000 United Nations Population Fund 332 000 United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East 78 000 World Food Programme 3 028 100 World Health Organization 1 675 000 29. The conflict has dramatically deepened for hundreds of thousands of people in Rif Dimashq. The military offensive on eastern Ghutah has created extreme conditions in an enclave certain parts of which have been besieged since 2013. Some 133,000 people were displaced from eastern Ghutah in March, more than 44,000 of whom remain in severely overcrowded sites for internally displaced persons in Rif Dimashq. Close to 50,000 others — mostly civilians and some fighters — have been transported to Idlib and Aleppo, where the humanitarian response has already been stretched to breaking point. The remainder have left the sites for internally displaced persons under a sponsorship system, the details of which remain unclear to the United Nations. Very severe needs, including protection needs, persist within eastern Ghutah in view of the level of destruction and the lack of services. The United Nations and its partners are responding to the mounting humanitarian needs of those in sites for internally displaced persons with food, shelter, health and other assistance and protection services. Additionally, the United Nations has provided legal counselling to around 22,000 individuals and more than 225,000 core relief items, as well as shelter support, including the provision to the Syrian Arab Red Crescent of 2,200 shelter kits. Some assistance has also been provided in newly accessible areas in eastern Ghutah through the Syrian Arab Red Crescent; Duma remained besieged and attacks continued. 30. Cross-border deliveries continued from Turkey and Jordan under the terms of resolutions 2165 (2014), 2191 (2014), 2258 (2015), 2332 (2016) and 2393 (2017) (see figure IV). In line with those resolutions, the United Nations notified the Syria