UPDATE: UN agencies are considering giving this aid to other organisations who are crossing the border. Let's tell them to do it!

UN trucks full of food and medicine are just across the border from millions of Syrians that need them. The UN is divided over a legal technicality on whether to let the trucks in or not -- but we can tip the balance.

The UN is waiting for the Syrian regime’s written permission to enter -- permission that could never come. But because the Syrian authorities are arbitrarily denying access, top legal minds and governments say that the UN doesn’t need to wait for their consent. It’s now up to five people to say go: the heads of Unicef, UNHCR, the World Food Programme, OCHA and WHO.

Let’s call on them to act -- more than 3 million people could be reached by these UN aid trucks. These agency heads won’t be used to this kind of public pressure -- every signature could strengthen the hand of those in the UN who want to cross the borders now. Sign the petition and let them know it’s time: send the trucks into Syria!