(UN News Centre) – Only in the first 14 days of the year, more than 30 children have been killed in escalating violence in Syria’s East Ghouta, where an estimated 200,000 children have been trapped under siege since 2013, the top United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official in the Middle Eastern country said Sunday. “At a time when most parents are filled with the New Year’s hope for their children’s future, mothers and fathers in Syria are left grieving for the children they have lost,” said Fran Equiza, UNICEF Representative in Syria in a statement.
A bloody start to 2018 in Syria; Over 30 children killed in two weeks – UNICEF
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