DUBAI: The UN refugee agency says it plans to send its aid largest shipment yet to Syria.

UNHCR Senior Logistics officer Soliman Daud says 43 shipping containers full of relief supplies will leave Dubai’s Jebel Ali port and travel through the Suez Canal before landing in Tartous, Syria.

He refused to say where the aid would be distributed once in Syria, but says the UNHCR is working with partners on the ground such as the Syrian Red Crescent in the western part of the country.

Aid workers began loading containers from the organization’s massive warehouses in Dubai on Thursday. Daud says the shipment takes between two to three weeks to reach Syria’s port.

The shipment includes tens of thousands of jerry cans, sleeping mats, kitchen sets, blankets and plastic sheets.

Meanwhile, Syrian media on Thursday accused Jordan of trying to stir up the rebel front in the south of the country.

“The southern front is today the most prominent after the subject was widely discussed under the aegis of the palace in Jordan,” the Al-Thawra government daily wrote.

The newspaper said international backers of the opposition were trying to stir up the southern front after a stalemate in peace efforts following a second round of talks in Geneva this month.

Separately, Syrian court has sentenced two men to prison for giving “false testimony” implicating Damascus in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a Syrian newspaper said Thursday.

The Al-Watan newspaper, which is close to the government, said a court on Wednesday sentenced Murad Akram to 10 years in prison, including five years with hard labor, and Zuhair Mohamed Said Saddiq to 20 years in prison with 10 years of hard labor.