A32NEWS - The number of children living in a siege war in Syria has doubled in less than a year to nearly 500,000 people.
Related to the problem, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) also called for the lifting of the siege and the permissibility of immediate humanitarian access.
"For millions of people in Syria, life has become a nightmare of endless - especially for the hundreds of thousands of children living in the siege," said Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director, as released internal news sites, UN News Center (www.un.org) Monday (28/11/2016).
Hundreds of thousands of children are now living in 16 areas under siege throughout Syria, and they are almost totally cut off from basic services and humanitarian aid is sustainable.
"Children are being killed and injured, too scared to go to school or even play, surviving on little food and hard drugs. This is not the way to survive - and too many people are killed," Lake said.
Most people receive too little help in nearly two years. In eastern Aleppo alone, UNICEF estimates that 100,000 children live in the siege.
With no safe place, children move on to the playground, schools, and hospitals underground to continue playing, learning and, when urgent, seek medical care.
In a region under siege, a group of social activists made a play area and a parking space by connecting a series of underground Ruan.
On average, 200 children came to play on it every day. In one other besieged areas, one underground schools provide a learning place for 250 girls.
When the civil war nearly six years old, UNICEF issued again its call to all parties to end the siege throughout Syria.
All parties to allow and facilitate humanitarian access-immediate, unconditional and sustainable to all regions across the Middle Eastern country civil war.
