Geneva – The U.N. children’s agency says 420,000 people — half of them children — need immediate help in Syria’s western governorate of Homs.
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UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado says the agency will now try to reach as many of those people as possible.
She told reporters Friday in Geneva that 200 of 1,500 schools in Homs were damaged by Syria’s 22-month-old civil war, while another 65 schools shelter children and families.
The U.N. refugee agency says eight trucks delivered 15,000 blankets and 2,000 tents this week, its first winter emergency relief, to more than 10,000 people in makeshift camps in northern Syria’s Azzas area.
The agency’s Middle East and North Africa director, Yacoub El Hillo, called it “an appalling situation” at the camps, where people need “urgent, acute and immediate” care.
Sadly, the children and elderly always suffer the most, but where are the wealthy Saudi cousins when you need them? The U.N never asks Iran to give $ to their much beloved Syria…Y NOT? Perhaps CAIR, who reside right here in AMERICA, wouldn’t mind sponsoring groups from their mosques to go to Syria on behalf of the children in need???
Get real! According to the U.N., the real humanitarian crisis in the Middle East is not that Assad is murdering thousands of his own people. including women and children. The real crisis in Middle East is the fact that Israelies are building porches on their houses in Jerusalem. Let’s get things into perspective!