Syria conflict: Siege warfare and suffering in Madaya

[Sally]

Here we are with full bellies while these people are starving.

Syria conflict: Siege warfare and suffering in Madaya

By Marianne GasserInternational Committee of the Red Cross, Damascus

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A cold rain was falling as the men carried the small bundle towards me. They were insisting I should take it.
A crowd had gathered. The only light came from the phones we carried; there had not been electricity for months.
The men stopped and slowly, carefully unwrapped the blanket. At first, I could not make out what was inside. Then it suddenly dawned on me that it was an old man.
He was wearing a jumper and black tracksuit bottoms. His little stick legs dangled in the air. His mouth lolled open. His eyes stared into nothingness.
He was hovering between life and death. The men looked at me expectantly. But there was nothing we could do.
Colossal suffering

A couple of hours earlier, we had entered the town of Madaya. An hour's drive from the Syrian capital, Damascus, the town had been under siege for months.
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[aris2chat]

Images and stories from there are horrific. It is a pattern by assad.

 

[waltky]

'Death better than this'...

Syria war: Hunger stalks besieged Madaya
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 - Aid workers tell the BBC what they saw in Madaya when they entered the city to deliver humanitarian supplies for the first time in almost six months.

In the basement of a house in the rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya is what people there call a medical centre. It is, actually, just a room with a bed, where the sick come for some help. But for many of the cases brought in, there is not much that can be done, aid groups say, with what little equipment there is in a precarious state and insufficient medicine available. In the dim and crowded surroundings, aid workers who went there recently met a woman whose daughter spent four days without eating. This, the mother told them, was because the girl's body no longer tolerated rice. Residents, under siege since June 2015, said rice had been the only food available there for months. Some children could no longer walk straight, the workers heard, because they lacked vitamins. Others had stopped growing. Elderly people looked fragile and much older than their years.

The 40,000 residents of Madaya, in the mountains 15 miles (25km) north-west of Damascus, are surrounded by the Syrian army and allied fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement. Most of their food provision is dependant on infrequent humanitarian deliveries. Relief finally came last week, when a convoy of 71 trucks brought food, medical supplies and hygiene kits for Madaya and three other besieged cities: nearby rebel-held Zabadani, and government-controlled Foah and Kefraya, in Idlib province, to the north. It was the first time aid was allowed in in almost six months. Ingy Sedky, an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross, which was part of the convoy, said she found people looking pale and weak.

A convoy heads to deliver food and humanitarian supplies to the Syrian besieged town of Madaya, near Damascus​

Children complained of severe headaches, she added, caused probably by the lack of food. "They need more protein, vegetables, fruits," Ms Sedky told the BBC from the capital, Damascus. "There is no meat or milk. They are eating only rice." There was international outrage earlier this year after the UN said there were credible reports of people dying of starvation in Madaya. Children, UN staff were told, were collecting grass with which to make soup, despite several having been hurt by landmines that encircle the city. A report by the group Physicians for Human Rights said 65 people died of malnutrition and starvation in Madaya between the start of the siege and July this year.

Things this time were not as dire, said Mirna Yacoub, deputy representative for the UN's children's charity Unicef in Syria, who was also part of the aid convoy. "There wasn't the level of acute malnutrition, starvation, like in January," she said, speaking also from Damascus. "But they are malnourished, there is a severe lack of vitamins. They don't have protein." Not only the young were weak. Miscarriages increased, Ms Yacoub added, because women were unable to keep their pregnancies. Caesareans were also more common because of the poor health of pregnant women - some were so weak they could not go through normal labour. "They are really suffering. And I really don't know how they're performing C-sections there," she said. "The operation theatre is just a room, they lack equipments and medicine."

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[Bleipriester]

 

[B. Kidd]

I appreciate your posts, as there is always a story behind western 'tug at your heartstrings' stories about Syria.

 

[B. Kidd]

'Death better than this'...

Syria war: Hunger stalks besieged Madaya
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 - Aid workers tell the BBC what they saw in Madaya when they entered the city to deliver humanitarian supplies for the first time in almost six months.

In the basement of a house in the rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya is what people there call a medical centre. It is, actually, just a room with a bed, where the sick come for some help. But for many of the cases brought in, there is not much that can be done, aid groups say, with what little equipment there is in a precarious state and insufficient medicine available. In the dim and crowded surroundings, aid workers who went there recently met a woman whose daughter spent four days without eating. This, the mother told them, was because the girl's body no longer tolerated rice. Residents, under siege since June 2015, said rice had been the only food available there for months. Some children could no longer walk straight, the workers heard, because they lacked vitamins. Others had stopped growing. Elderly people looked fragile and much older than their years.

The 40,000 residents of Madaya, in the mountains 15 miles (25km) north-west of Damascus, are surrounded by the Syrian army and allied fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement. Most of their food provision is dependant on infrequent humanitarian deliveries. Relief finally came last week, when a convoy of 71 trucks brought food, medical supplies and hygiene kits for Madaya and three other besieged cities: nearby rebel-held Zabadani, and government-controlled Foah and Kefraya, in Idlib province, to the north. It was the first time aid was allowed in in almost six months. Ingy Sedky, an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross, which was part of the convoy, said she found people looking pale and weak.

A convoy heads to deliver food and humanitarian supplies to the Syrian besieged town of Madaya, near Damascus​

Children complained of severe headaches, she added, caused probably by the lack of food. "They need more protein, vegetables, fruits," Ms Sedky told the BBC from the capital, Damascus. "There is no meat or milk. They are eating only rice." There was international outrage earlier this year after the UN said there were credible reports of people dying of starvation in Madaya. Children, UN staff were told, were collecting grass with which to make soup, despite several having been hurt by landmines that encircle the city. A report by the group Physicians for Human Rights said 65 people died of malnutrition and starvation in Madaya between the start of the siege and July this year.

Things this time were not as dire, said Mirna Yacoub, deputy representative for the UN's children's charity Unicef in Syria, who was also part of the aid convoy. "There wasn't the level of acute malnutrition, starvation, like in January," she said, speaking also from Damascus. "But they are malnourished, there is a severe lack of vitamins. They don't have protein." Not only the young were weak. Miscarriages increased, Ms Yacoub added, because women were unable to keep their pregnancies. Caesareans were also more common because of the poor health of pregnant women - some were so weak they could not go through normal labour. "They are really suffering. And I really don't know how they're performing C-sections there," she said. "The operation theatre is just a room, they lack equipments and medicine."

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How would you know that death is better? Have you died, idiot chimp?

 

[Bleipriester]

I appreciate your posts, as there is always a story behind western 'tug at your heartstrings' stories about Syria.

Since the US phony agreed to separate "moderate rebels" from al-Qaeda, the main truth lies openly on the table. Someone who is with al-Qaeda isn´t "moderate" in the first place and it is now obvious even to the most faithful media consumers that this big lie has not a pigtail of truths.

 

[aris2chat]

'Death better than this'...

Syria war: Hunger stalks besieged Madaya
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 - Aid workers tell the BBC what they saw in Madaya when they entered the city to deliver humanitarian supplies for the first time in almost six months.

In the basement of a house in the rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya is what people there call a medical centre. It is, actually, just a room with a bed, where the sick come for some help. But for many of the cases brought in, there is not much that can be done, aid groups say, with what little equipment there is in a precarious state and insufficient medicine available. In the dim and crowded surroundings, aid workers who went there recently met a woman whose daughter spent four days without eating. This, the mother told them, was because the girl's body no longer tolerated rice. Residents, under siege since June 2015, said rice had been the only food available there for months. Some children could no longer walk straight, the workers heard, because they lacked vitamins. Others had stopped growing. Elderly people looked fragile and much older than their years.

The 40,000 residents of Madaya, in the mountains 15 miles (25km) north-west of Damascus, are surrounded by the Syrian army and allied fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement. Most of their food provision is dependant on infrequent humanitarian deliveries. Relief finally came last week, when a convoy of 71 trucks brought food, medical supplies and hygiene kits for Madaya and three other besieged cities: nearby rebel-held Zabadani, and government-controlled Foah and Kefraya, in Idlib province, to the north. It was the first time aid was allowed in in almost six months. Ingy Sedky, an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross, which was part of the convoy, said she found people looking pale and weak.

A convoy heads to deliver food and humanitarian supplies to the Syrian besieged town of Madaya, near Damascus​

Children complained of severe headaches, she added, caused probably by the lack of food. "They need more protein, vegetables, fruits," Ms Sedky told the BBC from the capital, Damascus. "There is no meat or milk. They are eating only rice." There was international outrage earlier this year after the UN said there were credible reports of people dying of starvation in Madaya. Children, UN staff were told, were collecting grass with which to make soup, despite several having been hurt by landmines that encircle the city. A report by the group Physicians for Human Rights said 65 people died of malnutrition and starvation in Madaya between the start of the siege and July this year.

Things this time were not as dire, said Mirna Yacoub, deputy representative for the UN's children's charity Unicef in Syria, who was also part of the aid convoy. "There wasn't the level of acute malnutrition, starvation, like in January," she said, speaking also from Damascus. "But they are malnourished, there is a severe lack of vitamins. They don't have protein." Not only the young were weak. Miscarriages increased, Ms Yacoub added, because women were unable to keep their pregnancies. Caesareans were also more common because of the poor health of pregnant women - some were so weak they could not go through normal labour. "They are really suffering. And I really don't know how they're performing C-sections there," she said. "The operation theatre is just a room, they lack equipments and medicine."

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How would you know that death is better? Have you died, idiot chimp?

Children have been know to beg for death from their parents when there was no food. Wild animals, bugs and grass only go so far when one is staving.

Yes, in some case death is better than suffering, torture and abuse.

We don't make animals suffer when in pain or several disability. We have laws now to permit people to get assistance when they ready to die with dignity. Even children can request that right.

It is terrible these situation happen but suffering like that is worse.

 

[B. Kidd]

'Death better than this'...

Syria war: Hunger stalks besieged Madaya
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 - Aid workers tell the BBC what they saw in Madaya when they entered the city to deliver humanitarian supplies for the first time in almost six months.

In the basement of a house in the rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya is what people there call a medical centre. It is, actually, just a room with a bed, where the sick come for some help. But for many of the cases brought in, there is not much that can be done, aid groups say, with what little equipment there is in a precarious state and insufficient medicine available. In the dim and crowded surroundings, aid workers who went there recently met a woman whose daughter spent four days without eating. This, the mother told them, was because the girl's body no longer tolerated rice. Residents, under siege since June 2015, said rice had been the only food available there for months. Some children could no longer walk straight, the workers heard, because they lacked vitamins. Others had stopped growing. Elderly people looked fragile and much older than their years.

The 40,000 residents of Madaya, in the mountains 15 miles (25km) north-west of Damascus, are surrounded by the Syrian army and allied fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement. Most of their food provision is dependant on infrequent humanitarian deliveries. Relief finally came last week, when a convoy of 71 trucks brought food, medical supplies and hygiene kits for Madaya and three other besieged cities: nearby rebel-held Zabadani, and government-controlled Foah and Kefraya, in Idlib province, to the north. It was the first time aid was allowed in in almost six months. Ingy Sedky, an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross, which was part of the convoy, said she found people looking pale and weak.

A convoy heads to deliver food and humanitarian supplies to the Syrian besieged town of Madaya, near Damascus​

Children complained of severe headaches, she added, caused probably by the lack of food. "They need more protein, vegetables, fruits," Ms Sedky told the BBC from the capital, Damascus. "There is no meat or milk. They are eating only rice." There was international outrage earlier this year after the UN said there were credible reports of people dying of starvation in Madaya. Children, UN staff were told, were collecting grass with which to make soup, despite several having been hurt by landmines that encircle the city. A report by the group Physicians for Human Rights said 65 people died of malnutrition and starvation in Madaya between the start of the siege and July this year.

Things this time were not as dire, said Mirna Yacoub, deputy representative for the UN's children's charity Unicef in Syria, who was also part of the aid convoy. "There wasn't the level of acute malnutrition, starvation, like in January," she said, speaking also from Damascus. "But they are malnourished, there is a severe lack of vitamins. They don't have protein." Not only the young were weak. Miscarriages increased, Ms Yacoub added, because women were unable to keep their pregnancies. Caesareans were also more common because of the poor health of pregnant women - some were so weak they could not go through normal labour. "They are really suffering. And I really don't know how they're performing C-sections there," she said. "The operation theatre is just a room, they lack equipments and medicine."

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How would you know that death is better? Have you died, idiot chimp?

Children have been know to beg for death from their parents when there was no food. Wild animals, bugs and grass only go so far when one is staving.

Yes, in some case death is better than suffering, torture and abuse.

We don't make animals suffer when in pain or several disability. We have laws now to permit people to get assistance when they ready to die with dignity. Even children can request that right.

It is terrible these situation happen but suffering like that is worse.

Make sure you tell Jihadist affiliated rebel gorups this, too! I'm sure they'll be impressed.

 

[Hossfly]

'Death better than this'...

Syria war: Hunger stalks besieged Madaya
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 - Aid workers tell the BBC what they saw in Madaya when they entered the city to deliver humanitarian supplies for the first time in almost six months.

In the basement of a house in the rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya is what people there call a medical centre. It is, actually, just a room with a bed, where the sick come for some help. But for many of the cases brought in, there is not much that can be done, aid groups say, with what little equipment there is in a precarious state and insufficient medicine available. In the dim and crowded surroundings, aid workers who went there recently met a woman whose daughter spent four days without eating. This, the mother told them, was because the girl's body no longer tolerated rice. Residents, under siege since June 2015, said rice had been the only food available there for months. Some children could no longer walk straight, the workers heard, because they lacked vitamins. Others had stopped growing. Elderly people looked fragile and much older than their years.

The 40,000 residents of Madaya, in the mountains 15 miles (25km) north-west of Damascus, are surrounded by the Syrian army and allied fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement. Most of their food provision is dependant on infrequent humanitarian deliveries. Relief finally came last week, when a convoy of 71 trucks brought food, medical supplies and hygiene kits for Madaya and three other besieged cities: nearby rebel-held Zabadani, and government-controlled Foah and Kefraya, in Idlib province, to the north. It was the first time aid was allowed in in almost six months. Ingy Sedky, an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross, which was part of the convoy, said she found people looking pale and weak.

A convoy heads to deliver food and humanitarian supplies to the Syrian besieged town of Madaya, near Damascus​

Children complained of severe headaches, she added, caused probably by the lack of food. "They need more protein, vegetables, fruits," Ms Sedky told the BBC from the capital, Damascus. "There is no meat or milk. They are eating only rice." There was international outrage earlier this year after the UN said there were credible reports of people dying of starvation in Madaya. Children, UN staff were told, were collecting grass with which to make soup, despite several having been hurt by landmines that encircle the city. A report by the group Physicians for Human Rights said 65 people died of malnutrition and starvation in Madaya between the start of the siege and July this year.

Things this time were not as dire, said Mirna Yacoub, deputy representative for the UN's children's charity Unicef in Syria, who was also part of the aid convoy. "There wasn't the level of acute malnutrition, starvation, like in January," she said, speaking also from Damascus. "But they are malnourished, there is a severe lack of vitamins. They don't have protein." Not only the young were weak. Miscarriages increased, Ms Yacoub added, because women were unable to keep their pregnancies. Caesareans were also more common because of the poor health of pregnant women - some were so weak they could not go through normal labour. "They are really suffering. And I really don't know how they're performing C-sections there," she said. "The operation theatre is just a room, they lack equipments and medicine."

MORE

How would you know that death is better? Have you died, idiot chimp?

Children have been know to beg for death from their parents when there was no food. Wild animals, bugs and grass only go so far when one is staving.

Yes, in some case death is better than suffering, torture and abuse.

We don't make animals suffer when in pain or several disability. We have laws now to permit people to get assistance when they ready to die with dignity. Even children can request that right.

It is terrible these situation happen but suffering like that is worse.

Make sure you tell Jihadist affiliated rebel gorups this, too! I'm sure they'll be impressed.

FYI, Aris2chat has spent years working in war zones and refugee camps and she knows what she's talking about.

 

[B. Kidd]

'Death better than this'...

Syria war: Hunger stalks besieged Madaya
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 - Aid workers tell the BBC what they saw in Madaya when they entered the city to deliver humanitarian supplies for the first time in almost six months.

In the basement of a house in the rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya is what people there call a medical centre. It is, actually, just a room with a bed, where the sick come for some help. But for many of the cases brought in, there is not much that can be done, aid groups say, with what little equipment there is in a precarious state and insufficient medicine available. In the dim and crowded surroundings, aid workers who went there recently met a woman whose daughter spent four days without eating. This, the mother told them, was because the girl's body no longer tolerated rice. Residents, under siege since June 2015, said rice had been the only food available there for months. Some children could no longer walk straight, the workers heard, because they lacked vitamins. Others had stopped growing. Elderly people looked fragile and much older than their years.

The 40,000 residents of Madaya, in the mountains 15 miles (25km) north-west of Damascus, are surrounded by the Syrian army and allied fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement. Most of their food provision is dependant on infrequent humanitarian deliveries. Relief finally came last week, when a convoy of 71 trucks brought food, medical supplies and hygiene kits for Madaya and three other besieged cities: nearby rebel-held Zabadani, and government-controlled Foah and Kefraya, in Idlib province, to the north. It was the first time aid was allowed in in almost six months. Ingy Sedky, an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross, which was part of the convoy, said she found people looking pale and weak.

A convoy heads to deliver food and humanitarian supplies to the Syrian besieged town of Madaya, near Damascus​

Children complained of severe headaches, she added, caused probably by the lack of food. "They need more protein, vegetables, fruits," Ms Sedky told the BBC from the capital, Damascus. "There is no meat or milk. They are eating only rice." There was international outrage earlier this year after the UN said there were credible reports of people dying of starvation in Madaya. Children, UN staff were told, were collecting grass with which to make soup, despite several having been hurt by landmines that encircle the city. A report by the group Physicians for Human Rights said 65 people died of malnutrition and starvation in Madaya between the start of the siege and July this year.

Things this time were not as dire, said Mirna Yacoub, deputy representative for the UN's children's charity Unicef in Syria, who was also part of the aid convoy. "There wasn't the level of acute malnutrition, starvation, like in January," she said, speaking also from Damascus. "But they are malnourished, there is a severe lack of vitamins. They don't have protein." Not only the young were weak. Miscarriages increased, Ms Yacoub added, because women were unable to keep their pregnancies. Caesareans were also more common because of the poor health of pregnant women - some were so weak they could not go through normal labour. "They are really suffering. And I really don't know how they're performing C-sections there," she said. "The operation theatre is just a room, they lack equipments and medicine."

MORE

How would you know that death is better? Have you died, idiot chimp?

Children have been know to beg for death from their parents when there was no food. Wild animals, bugs and grass only go so far when one is staving.

Yes, in some case death is better than suffering, torture and abuse.

We don't make animals suffer when in pain or several disability. We have laws now to permit people to get assistance when they ready to die with dignity. Even children can request that right.

It is terrible these situation happen but suffering like that is worse.

Make sure you tell Jihadist affiliated rebel gorups this, too! I'm sure they'll be impressed.

FYI, Aris2chat has spent years working in war zones and refugee camps and she knows what she's talking about.

In Syrian ones?

 

[Hossfly]

'Death better than this'...

Syria war: Hunger stalks besieged Madaya
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 - Aid workers tell the BBC what they saw in Madaya when they entered the city to deliver humanitarian supplies for the first time in almost six months.

How would you know that death is better? Have you died, idiot chimp?

Children have been know to beg for death from their parents when there was no food. Wild animals, bugs and grass only go so far when one is staving.

Yes, in some case death is better than suffering, torture and abuse.

We don't make animals suffer when in pain or several disability. We have laws now to permit people to get assistance when they ready to die with dignity. Even children can request that right.

It is terrible these situation happen but suffering like that is worse.

Make sure you tell Jihadist affiliated rebel gorups this, too! I'm sure they'll be impressed.

FYI, Aris2chat has spent years working in war zones and refugee camps and she knows what she's talking about.

In Syrian ones?

You'll have to ask aris2chat about her experiences.

 

[Bleipriester]

'Death better than this'...

Syria war: Hunger stalks besieged Madaya
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 - Aid workers tell the BBC what they saw in Madaya when they entered the city to deliver humanitarian supplies for the first time in almost six months.

In the basement of a house in the rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya is what people there call a medical centre. It is, actually, just a room with a bed, where the sick come for some help. But for many of the cases brought in, there is not much that can be done, aid groups say, with what little equipment there is in a precarious state and insufficient medicine available. In the dim and crowded surroundings, aid workers who went there recently met a woman whose daughter spent four days without eating. This, the mother told them, was because the girl's body no longer tolerated rice. Residents, under siege since June 2015, said rice had been the only food available there for months. Some children could no longer walk straight, the workers heard, because they lacked vitamins. Others had stopped growing. Elderly people looked fragile and much older than their years.

The 40,000 residents of Madaya, in the mountains 15 miles (25km) north-west of Damascus, are surrounded by the Syrian army and allied fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement. Most of their food provision is dependant on infrequent humanitarian deliveries. Relief finally came last week, when a convoy of 71 trucks brought food, medical supplies and hygiene kits for Madaya and three other besieged cities: nearby rebel-held Zabadani, and government-controlled Foah and Kefraya, in Idlib province, to the north. It was the first time aid was allowed in in almost six months. Ingy Sedky, an aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross, which was part of the convoy, said she found people looking pale and weak.

A convoy heads to deliver food and humanitarian supplies to the Syrian besieged town of Madaya, near Damascus​

Children complained of severe headaches, she added, caused probably by the lack of food. "They need more protein, vegetables, fruits," Ms Sedky told the BBC from the capital, Damascus. "There is no meat or milk. They are eating only rice." There was international outrage earlier this year after the UN said there were credible reports of people dying of starvation in Madaya. Children, UN staff were told, were collecting grass with which to make soup, despite several having been hurt by landmines that encircle the city. A report by the group Physicians for Human Rights said 65 people died of malnutrition and starvation in Madaya between the start of the siege and July this year.

Things this time were not as dire, said Mirna Yacoub, deputy representative for the UN's children's charity Unicef in Syria, who was also part of the aid convoy. "There wasn't the level of acute malnutrition, starvation, like in January," she said, speaking also from Damascus. "But they are malnourished, there is a severe lack of vitamins. They don't have protein." Not only the young were weak. Miscarriages increased, Ms Yacoub added, because women were unable to keep their pregnancies. Caesareans were also more common because of the poor health of pregnant women - some were so weak they could not go through normal labour. "They are really suffering. And I really don't know how they're performing C-sections there," she said. "The operation theatre is just a room, they lack equipments and medicine."

MORE

How would you know that death is better? Have you died, idiot chimp?

Children have been know to beg for death from their parents when there was no food. Wild animals, bugs and grass only go so far when one is staving.

Yes, in some case death is better than suffering, torture and abuse.

We don't make animals suffer when in pain or several disability. We have laws now to permit people to get assistance when they ready to die with dignity. Even children can request that right.

It is terrible these situation happen but suffering like that is worse.

Make sure you tell Jihadist affiliated rebel gorups this, too! I'm sure they'll be impressed.

FYI, Aris2chat has spent years working in war zones and refugee camps and she knows what she's talking about.

Nope, she´s just an agitator that is cheerleading terrorists in Syria. You will find here referring to a Palestine stabbing as terror but you won´t find anything derogatory about the terrorists in Syria, for example, that the FSA captured ar-Raqqa and handed it out to ISIS.

 

[Hossfly]

'Death better than this'...

Syria war: Hunger stalks besieged Madaya
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 - Aid workers tell the BBC what they saw in Madaya when they entered the city to deliver humanitarian supplies for the first time in almost six months.

How would you know that death is better? Have you died, idiot chimp?

Children have been know to beg for death from their parents when there was no food. Wild animals, bugs and grass only go so far when one is staving.

Yes, in some case death is better than suffering, torture and abuse.

We don't make animals suffer when in pain or several disability. We have laws now to permit people to get assistance when they ready to die with dignity. Even children can request that right.

It is terrible these situation happen but suffering like that is worse.

Make sure you tell Jihadist affiliated rebel gorups this, too! I'm sure they'll be impressed.

FYI, Aris2chat has spent years working in war zones and refugee camps and she knows what she's talking about.

Nope, she´s just an agitator that is cheerleading terrorists in Syria. You will find here referring to a Palestine stabbing as terror but you won´t find anything derogatory about the terrorists in Syria, for example, that the FSA captured ar-Raqqa and handed it out to ISIS.

All I know is that she has been there, done that. What are your qualifications and experience?

 

[aris2chat]

'Death better than this'...

Syria war: Hunger stalks besieged Madaya
Sat, 08 Oct 2016 - Aid workers tell the BBC what they saw in Madaya when they entered the city to deliver humanitarian supplies for the first time in almost six months.

How would you know that death is better? Have you died, idiot chimp?

Children have been know to beg for death from their parents when there was no food. Wild animals, bugs and grass only go so far when one is staving.

Yes, in some case death is better than suffering, torture and abuse.

We don't make animals suffer when in pain or several disability. We have laws now to permit people to get assistance when they ready to die with dignity. Even children can request that right.

It is terrible these situation happen but suffering like that is worse.

Make sure you tell Jihadist affiliated rebel gorups this, too! I'm sure they'll be impressed.

FYI, Aris2chat has spent years working in war zones and refugee camps and she knows what she's talking about.

In Syrian ones?

Not so recently, but elsewhere in the region. I am however very family with Syria and the Assad family from years ago. Not exactly on Bashar's holiday list anymore, well perhaps on one of his wish lists.

I wish some day I could go back to see family and friends.

 

[waltky]

Not much Obama can do to keep Aleppo from fallin' to Assad...

Little consensus within administration on how to stop fall of Aleppo to Assad
October 8,`16 - It may be no small irony that President Obama’s peripathetic secretary of state will travel next week to Rwanda, where up to a million people were killed in a three-month ethnic genocide in 1994, and has tentative plans to attend an international meeting on Syria, where civilian dead are fast approaching the halfway point of that number.

Bill Clinton, president at the time of the Rwandan massacre, has said that U.S. failure to intervene there is one of his biggest regrets. Just two years later, an estimated 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered by Bosnian Serb forces in the town of Srebrenica while “the world’s great nations,” including the United States, “failed to respond adequately,” the United Nations later said. As Obama constructs the final months of his legacy, both historical events loom large. “Another Srebrenica, another Rwanda” are “written on that wall in front of us unless something takes place” to stop the slaughter, Staffan de Mistura, the U.N. envoy to Syria, said late last week as Russian and Syrian aircraft and artillery continued their relentless bombardment of rebel-held eastern Aleppo.

The Syrian government has dropped two chlorine bombs in the past month on the besieged, rebel-held city.​

But there is no consensus within the administration about what the United States can or should do to try to bring a halt to the killing and stop what now appears to be the increasingly inevitable fall of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, to government forces. The Pentagon has argued for years against direct U.S. military action as risking deeper involvement in Syria’s civil war and detracting from the separate fight against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Early last month, defense officials objected to a deal reached with Moscow by Secretary of State John F. Kerry that would couple a cease-fire and delivery of humanitarian aid with U.S.-Russian counterterrorism cooperation against the Islamic State and al-Qaeda linked forces in Syria.

When the cease-fire fell apart, the Aleppo onslaught began and Obama ordered up a new assessment and policy alternatives, some senior officials perceived a shift in the Pentagon’s position. At a Sept. 28 meeting of national security deputies, military officials described options against Assad’s forces that might provide leverage over Moscow. Among them were cruise missile strikes against Syrian military activities directly involved in Aleppo operations. The idea, said a nonmilitary official who approved of the concept, was more a shot across the bow to jolt hesitation into a new paradigm, rather than any full-scale U.S. entry into the conflict.

A general view of the area of Awijah as Syrian pro-government fighters advance in Aleppo's rebel-held neighborhoods.​

To the State Department and other agencies that had urged a more muscular policy, it seemed that a corner had been turned. Kerry, who has long advocated U.S. military action, had recently told a meeting of Syrian activists that he had lost that argument long ago, according to a recording of the session obtained by the New York Times. Now the State Department was sure the Pentagon had switched sides, according to several senior administration officials who described the ongoing, closed-door debate on the condition of anonymity. But last Thursday, as the discussion moved up the chain to a contentious White House meeting of national security principals, top defense officials made clear that their position had not changed. They advised a possible increase in weapons aid to opposition fighters but said the United States should focus its own military firepower on the anti-Islamic State mission rather than risk a direct confrontation with Russia.

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[Bleipriester]

How would you know that death is better? Have you died, idiot chimp?

Children have been know to beg for death from their parents when there was no food. Wild animals, bugs and grass only go so far when one is staving.

Yes, in some case death is better than suffering, torture and abuse.

We don't make animals suffer when in pain or several disability. We have laws now to permit people to get assistance when they ready to die with dignity. Even children can request that right.

It is terrible these situation happen but suffering like that is worse.

Make sure you tell Jihadist affiliated rebel gorups this, too! I'm sure they'll be impressed.

FYI, Aris2chat has spent years working in war zones and refugee camps and she knows what she's talking about.

Nope, she´s just an agitator that is cheerleading terrorists in Syria. You will find here referring to a Palestine stabbing as terror but you won´t find anything derogatory about the terrorists in Syria, for example, that the FSA captured ar-Raqqa and handed it out to ISIS.

All I know is that she has been there, done that. What are your qualifications and experience?

 

[aris2chat]

Syria is not the only place where people consider death a better option

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/w...-body-count-after-hurricane-matthew.html?_r=0

 

[Sally]

I appreciate your posts, as there is always a story behind western 'tug at your heartstrings' stories about Syria.

I'm really surprised at you, Mr. Kidd. Surely you aren't asleep at the switch that you haven't noticed that he will never admit that the Syrian regime does anything bad. Plus you must also notice that he calls anyone who puts up any article which is derogatory about his beloved regime scum. filthy liars and terrorist lovers like someone who has lost his marbles a long time ago. It is like the Syrian regime to him floats around like angels, and all the others are the bad guys -- even the reporters and ordinary civilians who are actually in the area and see what is going on plus even those Syrians who have managed to flee because of what was going on. Would you say this is propaganda? Syrians in Switzerland protest against Putin's role in war

I say kudos to those reporters who are willing to work in dangerous zones in order to get the news out to the world and to those aid workers (like those who belong to the Red Cross) who manage to get through to help the people in need.

Syria war: Hunger stalks besieged Madaya - BBC News

 

[Bleipriester]

I appreciate your posts, as there is always a story behind western 'tug at your heartstrings' stories about Syria.

I'm really surprised at you, Mr. Kidd. Surely you aren't asleep at the switch that you haven't noticed that he will never admit that the Syrian regime does anything bad. Plus you must also notice that he calls anyone who puts up any article which is derogatory about his beloved regime scum. filthy liars and terrorist lovers like someone who has lost his marbles a long time ago. It is like the Syrian regime to him floats around like angels, and all the others are the bad guys -- even the reporters and ordinary civilians who are actually in the area and see what is going on plus even those Syrians who have managed to flee because of what was going on. Would you say this is propaganda? Syrians in Switzerland protest against Putin's role in war

I say kudos to those reporters who are willing to work in dangerous zones in order to get the news out to the world and to those aid workers (like those who belong to the Red Cross) who manage to get through to help the people in need.

Syria war: Hunger stalks besieged Madaya - BBC News

Your lies uncovered!

Syria: Flash Update 1 - Az-Zabdani, Madaya, Bqine, Foah, Kafraya Operation, 20 October 2015

Published on 20 Oct 2015

Highlights

• Three convoys departed to deliver humanitarian assistance from Damascus to Az-Zabdani and Madaya/Bqine, and simultaneously from Turkey to Foah and Kafraya.
  
• 20,000 beneficiaries were served in Az-Zabdani,
  Madaya, and Bqine by UN agencies, ICRC and SARC.
  
• 10,000 beneficiaries were served in Foah and Kafraya through a cross-border delivery from Turkey under the framework of UN Security Council Resolution 2165 / 2191 and delivered by SARC Idleb.
  
• Humanitarian assistance was composed of health, food, nutrition, NFIs and WASH supplies.
  

Situation Overview

On 22 September a conditional ceasefire agreement was signed for the areas of Az-Zabdani, Madaya,
Foah and Kafraya and surrounding areas, after months of escalating violence.

The ceasefire agreement stipulates the provision of humanitarian assistance, evacuation of the critically injured, evacuation of civilians, safe passage of combatants, exchange of prisoners and the release of detainees.
The agreement states that its terms should be implemented "under the patronage and with the supervision and presence of the UN."

The first phase of the ceasefire agreement allowed for the provision of humanitarian assistance in the four main towns and some surrounding areas, where urgent life-saving needs are reported.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

Syria: Flash Update 1 - Az-Zabdani, Madaya, Bqine, Foah, Kafraya Operation, 20 October 2015