Report says 640,200 Syrians in besieged areas

[Sally]

One wonders how long they can hold out without food and medical care..

Report says 640,200 Syrians in besieged areas

In this Sunday Feb. 9, 2014, file photo, provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian army soldiers, top background, look on as two women walk towards a bus to evacuate the battleground city of Homs, Syria, where a Syrian Red Crescent official says around 300 more people were evacuated from besieged rebel-held neighborhoods in the area. (AP Photo/SANA, File)
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Nearly 650,000 Syrians are living in besieged communities in the country's civil war, more than three times the U.N. estimate, according to a new report that offers a graphic account of hundreds of deaths in areas the world has struggled for years to reach.

The report says Syria's government is responsible for the overwhelming amount of siege tactics that have led to deaths by starvation, dehydration and the lack of medical care. The document does not look at what it calls the short-term siege tactics used by the Islamic State group, which has beheaded and massacred its opponents in the vast area straddling the Syria-Iraq border currently under its control.

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[Sunni Man]

One wonders how long they can hold out without food and medical care..

Report says 640,200 Syrians in besieged areas

In this Sunday Feb. 9, 2014, file photo, provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian army soldiers, top background, look on as two women walk towards a bus to evacuate the battleground city of Homs, Syria, where a Syrian Red Crescent official says around 300 more people were evacuated from besieged rebel-held neighborhoods in the area. (AP Photo/SANA, File)
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Nearly 650,000 Syrians are living in besieged communities in the country's civil war, more than three times the U.N. estimate, according to a new report that offers a graphic account of hundreds of deaths in areas the world has struggled for years to reach.

The report says Syria's government is responsible for the overwhelming amount of siege tactics that have led to deaths by starvation, dehydration and the lack of medical care. The document does not look at what it calls the short-term siege tactics used by the Islamic State group, which has beheaded and massacred its opponents in the vast area straddling the Syria-Iraq border currently under its control.

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Oh my.......

 

[aris2chat]

One wonders how long they can hold out without food and medical care..

Report says 640,200 Syrians in besieged areas

In this Sunday Feb. 9, 2014, file photo, provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian army soldiers, top background, look on as two women walk towards a bus to evacuate the battleground city of Homs, Syria, where a Syrian Red Crescent official says around 300 more people were evacuated from besieged rebel-held neighborhoods in the area. (AP Photo/SANA, File)
拡大写真
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Nearly 650,000 Syrians are living in besieged communities in the country's civil war, more than three times the U.N. estimate, according to a new report that offers a graphic account of hundreds of deaths in areas the world has struggled for years to reach.

The report says Syria's government is responsible for the overwhelming amount of siege tactics that have led to deaths by starvation, dehydration and the lack of medical care. The document does not look at what it calls the short-term siege tactics used by the Islamic State group, which has beheaded and massacred its opponents in the vast area straddling the Syria-Iraq border currently under its control.

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so sad to begin the 21st C like this

 

[eagle1462010]

Over HALF of the Syrians have been displaced in this War................Most of the Northern Towns are completely displaced................Has been that way for a very long time as they fled the WAR...............

Here is one of their New homes in Jordan........