The United Nations agency that helps the world’s needy children issued a terse statement on Tuesday about the escalating death toll in Syria as pro-government forces hammer rebel-held areas. Eastern Ghouta is the remaining rebel-held area east of Damascus, and has been under siege by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces since 2013. ABDULMONAM EASSA via Getty Images A Syrian civil defense member carries an injured child after a government bombing in the rebel-held town of Hamouria in Syria's besieged eastern Ghouta region. People are trapped without food and access to medical evacuations, a spokesman for Save the Children, Alun McDonald, told Reuters. “The longer the siege and bombing goes on, it is effectively a death sentence for many children,” he said.

Source: Huffington Post February 21, 2018 03:11 UTC