Seven children, including one just seven months old, died from the cold and terrible living conditions in refugee camps in Idlib, Syria
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousSeven children, including one who was only seven months old, died from the cold and the terrible living conditions in the refugee camps in Idlib, Syria where the civil war that has destroyed childhoods and families for nine long years is still ongoing. The news is Hurras Network, partner in Idlib of S, the organization fighting to save at-risk children. Two sisters aged 3 and 4 lost their lives after the tent in which they lived caught fire because the stove was not safe, while their pregnant mom suffered burns on her body.
"Even a 14-year-old boy, who lived with his family of seven in a small tent, could not withstand the freezing temperatures," said a Hurras Network aid worker, in a note released by Save the Children.
Two other girls died of asphyxiation. They were 3 and 10 years old and died from the heating malfunction, along with a 7-month-old boy and a 1-year-old girl, who had cardiac arrest due to freezing.
We have already told you about the tragedy that Syrian children are experiencing, traumatized, isolated and increasingly suffering. They die under the bombs because undernourished and forced to sleep in the cold in a tent. According to the United Nations, out of a population of 1 million, 3 have fled since December 900, of which it is estimated that at least half are children. More than 40% of Idlib's schools and educational facilities are damaged, destroyed or out of service, and functioning schools have more than 80 students per class in some areas. At the end of January, more than 3700 teachers were also forced to flee, putting the education system already at its limit even more in crisis.
“I don't like snow in the field because it's really cold and my sister and I both got sick. Part of our tent collapsed due to the weight of the snow. I have no clothes or anything to warm up in our tent. I want shoes so I can play in the snow like my friends, ”said Mira (real name), a 13-year-old girl who now lives in a camp in Save the Children.
Given the increasing number of civilians seeking safety on the border between Syria and Turkey, concern is growing over the possibility that the death toll could rise. Living conditions in the camps are absolutely inhumane, women and children live without a roof over their heads or warm clothes, exposed to sub-zero temperatures.
“Even when these people manage to find a tent, a heater and a mattress, they risk being asphyxiated by faulty heaters or their shelter catching fire,” says Sonia Khush, director general of Save the Children in Syria, in a statement.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, about 9 people fled to the Turkish border from 12 to 142 February, the vast majority of whom are women and children, forced to leave only with the clothes they were wearing. . More than 80 people currently live in snow-covered fields, exposed to the freezing winter of northern Syria. To keep warm, they find themselves having to burn plastic or other flammable materials when they can't find wood.
And unfortunately there is no one who really wants to stop all this horror. We are not there!
Fonti: Save the children, Hurras Network
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