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Besieged Madaya, Syria, Residents Describe Starvation, 'Heartbreaking'
Conditions
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By Louise Dewast
LONDON —
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Several residents of the besieged Syrian town of Madaya have been able
to leave one day after aid convoys were allowed in amid reports of
widespread starvation.
While the arrival of convoys was applauded by the international
community, United Nations
<http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/world/united-nations.htm>
humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien told reporters that at least 400
people are in urgent need of medical treatment and should be evacuated.
“We are suffering from anemia and many other diseases,” an unnamed
resident who managed to leave Madaya told BBC News, before adding: “We
have no food, even bread. There’s no water, no electricity, no heating,
our children cry all night, we are unable to feed them.”
It is unclear how many people have left Madaya in the past 24 hours.
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PHOTO:Syrians wait for the arrival of an aid convoy in the besieged town
of Madaya, Jan. 11, 2016. AFP/Getty Images
PHOTO:Syrians wait for the arrival of an aid convoy in the besieged town
of Madaya, Jan. 11, 2016. more +
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Madaya was a topic of discussion Monday at a U.N. meeting in New York,
where New Zealand U.N. Ambassador Gerard van Bohemen told reporters "the
tactic of siege and starvation is one of the most appalling
characteristics of the Syrian conflict
<http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/world/syrian-civil-war.htm>.”
U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power
<http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/whitehouse/samantha-power.htm> said,
“Look at the haunting pictures of civilians, including children, even
babies,” before adding, "these images, they remind us of the second
world war <http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/history/world-war-ii.htm>.”
The World Health Organization
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has asked the Syrian government for permission to send mobile clinics
and medical teams in to assess the extent of malnutrition, according to
a written statement from the organization.
PHOTO:Syrians carry their belongings as they leave the besieged
rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya, Jan. 11, 2016. AFP/Getty Images
PHOTO:Syrians carry their belongings as they leave the besieged
rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya, Jan. 11, 2016. more +
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WHO representative Elizabeth Hoff said a door-to-door assessment was
needed. So far, 7.8 tons of medical aid, including trauma kits for
wounds and medications for treating chronic and communicable diseases,
have been delivered, Hoff said.
The multiagency aid convoys were able to enter the city of Madaya, where
about 40,000 people live, only after an agreement was made with the
government to also deliver aid to the rebel-held cities of Foua and
Kefraya.
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On Monday, aid workers described seeing crowds of hungry children: "It's
heartbreaking to see so many hungry people," Sajjad Malik, a
representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in
Syria, said.
Doctors Without Borders
<http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/world/doctors-without-borders.htm>
says 23 people have died of starvation since Dec. 1, including six young
than 1.
“I know someone who caught cats, slaughtered them and gave them to his
mother, pretending they were rabbits. I know other people who collected
their food from the trash and others who ate grass,” one resident who
was not named told BBC News.
"The aid convoy to Madaya has been delivered using 44 trucks and
contained 7,800 food parcels, enough for 40,000 people, babies food,
pregnant women special nutrition, high energy food, medical supplies,
various medicines and 20,000 blankets," the Syrian Arab Red Crescent
Society said a written statement.
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"The people were coming every five minutes asking, 'Listen, did you
bring food, did you bring medicine?' Some are smiling and waving at us
but many are just simply too weak, with a very bleak expression, too
tired," spokesman Pawel Krzysiek of the International Committee of the
Red Cross
<http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/world/american-red-cross.htm> (ICRC)
said.
"The aid convoy to Kefraya and Foua has been delivered using 21 trucks
and contained 4,000 food parcels enough for 20,000 people, babies food,
pregnant women special nutrition, high energy food, medical supplies,
various medicines and 10,000 blankets," the ICRC added.
Up to 400,000 people in 15 besieged locations of Syria do not have
access to the aid they desperately need, according to the United
Nations, and in the past year, only 10 percent of all requests to access
these areas were approved, followed by deliveries.
II.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/madaya_starvation_siege_loc/?bARXcab&v=71289&cl=9227105245
UN Secretary General: Save Madaya from starvation
SIGN THE PETITION [by visiting the link above]
To UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura,
Presidents Rouhani and Erdogan, and all parties to the Syrian
conflict:
As citizens from around the world, we are truly horrified by the
intentional starvation of the residents of Madaya. We call on you to
urgently use your powers to get the siege on Madaya lifted, and to end
the blockades on all towns across Syria, while redoubling your
diplomatic efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace. Our community
will not remain silent in the face of these humanitarian crimes and
other atrocities. The power to save countless lives is in your hands.
...
700,973 have signed. Let's get to 1,000,000
In the besieged town of Madaya, starving children are eating tree
leaves, cats and insects. The Assad regime is literally starving over
40,000 people to death. It's hard to imagine the suffering of parents
watching their kids die from hunger -- but we have a way to help them.
A truce to lift the siege on Madaya and other cities was brokered in
September, but civilians are still trapped inside without food and
medicine. Aid conveys are right now entering the town, and with all
the world's attention on Madaya, we finally have a chance to get the
siege lifted entirely to save the people of Madaya.
Turkey and Iran can work with their allies to do this, but won’t act
on their own. If we raise a one million strong outcry calling on UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to intervene and work with all sides, we
could save thousands of families from starving to death in Madaya.
Ban Ki-moon can do this -- if the siege is lifted, it could set a
hopeful foundation for upcoming peace talks. And with his service to
the UN ending soon, lifting the siege would be a great achievement for
his legacy. With enough pressure from each one of us, we can get Ban
Ki-moon to be the champion Madaya desperately needs right now.
Add your voice to the urgent petition. Avaaz will take stories and
photos from Madaya to the media, the UN, and key foreign ministries
until the siege is lifted.
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