Madaya calls for food for thought
Food is available in a besieged city in Syria only for the few who can afford it.
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2016-01-09 19:24 GMT
London: Food is available in a besieged city in Syria only for the few who can afford it. The UN has confirmed it has received ‘credible reports’ of people starving to death in Madaya, near Damascas, where milk can cost around £100 per pint.
The Red Cross will launch a ‘huge and complicated’ operation to help the residents, as well as the under-siege towns Foua and Kfarya in the northwest, but a spokesman said it was unlikely to begin before Sunday.
Pawel Krzysiek, spo-kesman for the Inter-national Committee of the Red Cross, said that food and medical assistance would be provided to the beleaguered residents. Madaya is home to 42,000 people and has become notorious in recent days because of the cases of starvation recorded there. It is surrounded by pro-government forces.
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