‘On the brink of disaster’: children starve in siege of Syria’s former breadbasket | Droolin Dog dot Net

With a political breakthrough unlikely at upcoming talks, people in eastern Ghouta face shortages of food, fuel and medicine The sight of a woman weeping as she drags her malnourished children into a clinic is not rare in eastern Ghouta, which is under siege by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad. But when one mother told Abdel Hamid, a doctor, that she had fed her four starving children newspaper cutouts softened with water to stop them from screaming into the night, even he was stunned. Continue reading… Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/24/syria-eastern-ghouta-siege-talks Tags: *Headlines*, #Headlines, #TheNewz, World News | #WorldNews, #TopNews, #Trending

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