the ROME – at Least 7 children, including one just seven months, died due to the freezing temperatures and terrible conditions of life in refugee camps in Idlib, Syria. This has been confirmed by Hurras Network, partners in Idlib Save the Children, the Organization that for over 100 years, the fight to save at-risk children and ensure them a future. “Two little sisters 3 and 4 years – refers to an aid worker of the Ngo Hurras Network – have lost their lives after the tent in which they lived caught fire, because the stove was not safe and their mum is pregnant reported burns on the body. Even a 14 year old boy, who lived with his family of seven people in a small tent, has not stood up to the freezing temperatures”.
two of the girls died of asphyxiation. Hurras Network has also registered the death of two girls of 3 and 10 years from suffocation due to the malfunction of the heating, together with a child of 7 months and a girl of 1 year, who died of cardiac arrest due to frost. From 1 December 2019, 450 thousand children were forced to flee from their homes in Idlib, in Syria, where more than a quarter of the population is displaced due to the brutal escalation of the ongoing conflict. According to the United Nations, from 1 December, on a population of 3 million, 900 thousand have fled, which it is estimated that at least half are children. More than 40% of the schools and of the educational facilities of Idlib are damaged, destroyed or out of service, and the schools broken record in some areas more than 80 students per class. At the end of January, more than 3,700 teachers have been forced to flee, putting even more of a crisis in the education system already at the limit.
“The casualties might increase”. “Given that an increasing number of civilians is desperately looking for salvation at the border between Syria and Turkey, – says Sonia Khush, director general of Save the Children in Syria – we are concerned that the death toll may rise, given the conditions of life absolutely inhuman, in which there are women and children, with sub-zero temperatures, no roof over your head and no warm clothes. Even when these people are able to find a tent, a heater and a mattress, they are likely to die of suffocation by heating defective, or that their home might catch fire”,
To warm up, and burn the plastic. According to the United Nations Office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, from the 9th to the 12th of February, about 142 thousand people have fled to the Turkish border, the vast majority of whom are women and children who are forced to leave only with the clothes they were wearing. More than 80 thousand people currently live in the fields covered by snow, exposed to the chilly winter of northern Syria. To warm up, find themselves having to burn plastic or other flammable materials, when not able to find the wood.
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