‘They are getting old so young:’ plight of Syria’s civil war seen in youngest

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I really that there are Jew haters on this forum who don't want to waste their time with what is happening in the rest of the Middle East so naturally they overlook the 10,000 plus children who have died and how those lucky enough to survive feel about what is happening.


‘They are getting old so young:’ plight of Syria’s civil war seen in youngest
By Associated Press

July 30, 2014 | 9:57am

ZAATARI, Jordan — At Jordan’s Zaatari refugee camp near the border with Syria, the horror of the neighboring country’s civil war can be seen in the faces of its youngest refugees.

More than 50,000 refugees under the age of 18 call the wind-swept, massive desert camp home. All have stories about the war, like 11-year-old Amal Qalloosh, who fled her home near the city of Daraa with her family after a government bombing.

“On the way here, there was a lot of shelling,” Qalloosh said. “It was terrifying but we made it all safe to the camp.”

Some children work in Zaatari, while the lucky attend school at the camp. As Muslims celebrated Eid al-Fitr this week, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, some children received new clothes from aid agencies and played, though life in the camp can be hard.

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