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The mission of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is to mobilize and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors. May was the worst on record since the start of the conflict. During that month, there were 15 verified attacks on medical facilities, all by aerial bombardment, including eight barrel bomb attacks. Ten medical staff were killed. Intense fighting across the country is displacing tens of thousands more people. In Tal Abyad, some 50,000 people have been forced from their homes since May. In Dar’a, fighting between Government forces and non-State armed groups began in the early hours of 24 June, displacing at least 40,000 people. In Hasakeh City, an ISIL attack displaced at least 60,000 people in the past week, and in Raqqa, thousands of Kurds were told by ISIL to leave the governorate. Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon continue to bear the lion’s share of the ever-growing burden of caring for those who flee Syria. Turkey, for example, is already hosting 1.8 million refugees, and took in at least 23,000 of those fleeing Tal Abyad in mid-June. I thank these neighboring countries, and echo the recent comments by the High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres. The rest of the world needs to step up to do substantively more to address the consequences of this conflict. It is crucial that other countries welcome Syrians who are seeking a safe haven. Despite the extremely challenging environment, humanitarian organizations operating from within Syria and from neighboring countries continue to reach millions of people in need. Each month, WFP is feeding approximately 4.1 million people, WHO is distributing medicines and supplies for around 2.7 million people, and UNICEF is reaching 2.2 million people with water, sanitation services, education and other support. UNHCR continues to provide over 240,000 people with core relief items and protection services, and UNRWA supports around 480,000 Palestinian refugees. This is complemented by the on-going programmes of non-governmental organizations, which reached over one million people in May. However, aid deliveries to the 4.8 million people in need in hard-to-reach areas remain a serious challenge, as a result of active conflict, insecurity and deliberate obstruction by the parties to the conflict. UN agencies and partners are only reaching around 34 per cent of hard-to-reach and besieged areas each month. Of the 48 inter-agency requests made to the Government so far in 2015, 20 were approved following meetings in April and June and 12 have been put on hold because of insecurity, leaving 16 requests awaiting government approval. The recent progress in the approval of access to some locations needs to continue, and we call upon the Government to approve the pending requests and allow rapid, unimpeded and sustainable access to all hard-to-reach locations. We also note the Government’s quick approvals of a number of short term visas in May and June for UN and INGO staff who attended humanitarian meetings hosted in Damascus within the Whole of Syria context, and very much hope this trend will continue. Parties to the conflict continue to besiege 422,000 civilians. Some humanitarian assistance, including medical supplies, was delivered to Eastern Ghouta, besieged by Government forces, during April and May; and assistance was airlifted into western neighborhoods of Deir ez Zor, besieged by ISIL forces. But the assistance that the UN and partners have managed to get into besieged areas in the past three months has been wholly inadequate