Nearly 500,000 children live under siege in Syria, UNICEF demands humanitarian access
November 29, 2016 Human Rights, Syria
Geneva (UN) – As the number of children living under siege has doubled in less than one year to nearly 500,000 amid escalating violence across Syria, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for lifting sieges and allowing immediate humanitarian access.
“For millions of human beings in Syria, life has become an endless nightmare – in particular for the hundreds of thousands of children living under siege,” said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, according to a news release which also stated that children are now playing and studying in underground spaces.
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