As the UN Security Council debates renewing an aid operation in Syria that serves as a lifeline for millions in the country's embattled Idlib region, relief agencies are scrambling to prepare for what they describe as a humanitarian nightmare in which there is no feasible contingency plan.
The 15-member council has until July 10 to reauthorize a resolution that allows for the delivery of urgently needed food, medicine and basic goods that are trucked across the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the Syrian-Turkish border each month.
