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The UN children?s agency said Friday that it witnessed the death of a teenager who died of starvation ?in front of our eyes,? as well as several cases of severe malnutrition among children trapped in a besieged Syrian town near Damascus.
Hanaa Singer, UNICEF?s representative in Syria, said in a statement that the 16-year-old, identified as Ali, died of malnutrition on Thursday in a clinic in the town of Madaya.

Trucks from the UN and other humanitarian organizations entered Madaya on Thursday for the second time in a week after reports of starvation deaths. The town has been under siege for months by government forces.
Two other communities, the villages of Foua and Kfarya in northern Syria, besieged by Syrian rebels were also included in the aid operation.
The death of the teenager as international aid workers were inside Madaya reinforced the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe in the town and other besieged areas.

The UN Security Council is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting Friday at the request of Western countries trying to press Syria?s warring parties to lift sieges on towns where hundreds of thousands have been cut off from aid and many are starving.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who called the deliberate starvation of civilians a ?war crime,? also stepped up the pressure, calling Thursday for both the Syrian government and rebels to end the sieges before the commencement of peace talks scheduled for Jan. 25 in Geneva.
Ban said the United Nations and its humanitarian partners are able to deliver food to only 1 percent of the 400,000 people under siege in Syria, down from 5 percent just over a year ago.
Juliette Touma, an Amman-based UNICEF representative, said the agency?s staff who spent close to seven hours in Madaya Thursday are ?terribly shocked.?
Her staff saw ?pretty horrific scenes? of malnourishment, including among women, children and the elderly, she told The Associated Press.

She added, however, that many felt relief at finally arriving at these hard-to-reach areas. ?It is important right now to maintain this humanitarian access ... There are 14 other Madayas,? she said.
Singer, in the statement, said that at the makeshift hospital UNICEF visited in the town, there were only two doctors and two health professionals working under overwhelming conditions.
Meanwhile Russia, which has been conducting airstrikes in Syria to support its Syrian army allies, said that Russian airplanes dropped 22 metric tons of humanitarian cargo over the eastern city of Deir ez-Zour, which has been besieged by the Daesh group for a year.


 

 

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