2016年1月9日 星期六

敘利亞Madaya 圍城下的饑荒、多人餓死


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【孩子七日沒有進食,飢餓成為殺人武器 】文:Rosina
//莫哈密向神發誓,他已經七日沒有吃過東西了,小小的身體瘦得只有皮包骨,深陷的眼窩在瘦削的臉龐上顯得不尋常的大、只有七個月大的漢納只靠鹽和水維持生命, 一幅Twitter 上的圖片中,一個成年人在垃圾堆中找食物⋯⋯。
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叙利亚被围困小城已有多人饿死
叙利亚一座小城内的人道主义悲剧震惊全球:距离大马士革约25公里的小城市马达亚受到政府军包围,长时间以来无法取得粮食。“无国界医生”通报,自12月至今已有20余人饿死。

Syrian government 'to let aid into besieged Madaya'



Media captionActivists have released images of malnourished children, as Jim Muir reports

The Syrian government has agreed to allow aid into the besieged rebel-held village of Madaya, the UN says, amid reports of residents starving to death.
The UN humanitarian co-ordinator said it was planning to deliver humanitarian assistance "in the coming days".
Aid agencies say conditions in Madaya, near Damascus, are "extremely dire".
The UN said it also had government permission for access to Kefraya and Foah in the north but, unlike Madaya, these are besieged by rebel forces.
Up to 4.5 million people in Syria live in hard-to-reach areas, including nearly 400,000 people in 15 besieged locations who do not have access to the life-saving aid they urgently need.

'Nothing left to eat'

Madaya, which is about 25km (15 miles) north-west of Damascus and 11km from the border with Lebanon, has been besieged since early July by government forces and their allies in Lebanon's Shia Islamist Hezbollah movement.
The UN said it had received credible reports of people dying from starvation and being killed while trying to leave. On 5 January, a 53 year-old man reportedly died of starvation while his family of five continues to suffer from severe malnutrition, it said.
Save the Children also warned on Thursday that "more children will die in the coming days and weeks unless food, medicine, fuel and other vital aid is immediately allowed into... Madaya".


Map showing besieged parts of Syria

Aid lorries delivered medical and humanitarian supplies to the village in October, and medical evacuations took place in December, but it has been inaccessible since then, despite numerous requests for access.
Conditions have worsened with the onset of winter.
A Syria-based spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Pawel Krzysiek, told the BBC on Wednesday that he had visited Madaya during the last aid delivery and that the situation was now "even more dire".
"People here have started eating earth because there's nothing left to eat," Madaya resident Abdel Wahab Ahmed, told the BBC on Thursday. "Grass and leaves have died because of the mounting snow."


Syrian children carry placards as they call for the lifting of the siege off Madaya in Syria, in front of the offices of the UN headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon (26 December 2015)Image copyrightReuters
Image captionSyrian opposition supporters have urged the UN to ensure aid reaches Madaya
A Syrian Red Crescent ambulance carries a wounded Syrian opposition fighter, leave Zabadani, Syria (28 December 2015)Image copyrightAP
Image captionWounded people were evacuated from Madaya and nearby Zabadani, pictured, in December

He described the lack of medical facilities for the sick and vulnerable as "terrifying".
The cost of basic goods has reportedly also surged, with 1kg (2.2lb) of crushed wheat selling for as much as $250 (£171) and 900g of powdered formula for babies going for about $300.
Activists said the siege of Madaya had been stepped up by the government and Hezbollah in retaliation for the rebel siege of Foah and Kefraya, which has lasted even longer.
The situation in the predominantly Shia villages, about 7km (5 miles) to the north of the city of Idlib, is also reported to have worsened since the fall in September of a nearby government air base where helicopters were able to drop off food.
Some of the estimated 30,000 people trapped in the villages have been forced to eat grass and undergo surgery without anaesthesia, according to wounded pro-government fighters evacuated at the end of December under a deal that also saw rebels and civilians allowed to leave Madaya.
The UN has warned that international humanitarian law prohibits the targeting of civilians, and also the starvation of civilians as a tactic of war.

"Families are eating leaves, grasses and water flavoured with spices in the town of Madaya, where rice is sold by the gram because a kilogram costs as much as $250 (£170). Some have killed and eaten their pets."


Activists in Madaya, where 30,000 people have been trapped in since July, tell of how families are eating leaves to survive
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