Translation by Yusra Ahmed
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nihad Abed, a Syrian young man has chosen to sit outside in very cold snowing weather in his underwear holding the revolution’s flag, to protest against siege in Madaya.
The temperature was almost minus 10, but he expressed to Zaman Al Wasl that he has chosen to do so in order to feel feeling of people in that under-siege city, and show them that there are people think and care about them.
Abed explained that he was not able to tolerate the cold for more than half an hour, which made him wondering how people in Madaya can hold on all that time without any source of warm, food and drink. The fact that people in Madaya don't know when they can find a warn bed or food to eat, has worsened his feeling of pain.
In regard to acts of Shabiha and Hezbollah’s members in Germany, Abed said that some of them were in Germany even before the revolution, but with the increased numbers of refugees, they seized the chance to defame and distort refugees’.
He reported a story of a Lebanese man who supports the revolution and established a restaurant, but Shabiha damaged it and torn the flag of revolution and Lebanese flag those were put on the windows, but all what they had done, he did not care and carried on and fixed the damage.
There is a sit-in to support Madaya this Saturday 9th January in Alexanderplatz Square in Berlin, where almost 500 people would gather to support the revolution, and express solidarity to the day of relieving Syria from the Hunger Siege.
The UN said that the Syrian government has agreed to allow aid into the besieged rebel-held town of Madaya. The UN humanitarian co-ordinator said it was planning to deliver humanitarian assistance "in the coming days".
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.
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 Shiite Islamist Hezbollah movement.
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".
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nihad Abed, a Syrian young man has chosen to sit outside in very cold snowing weather in his underwear holding the revolution’s flag, to protest against siege in Madaya.
The temperature was almost minus 10, but he expressed to Zaman Al Wasl that he has chosen to do so in order to feel feeling of people in that under-siege city, and show them that there are people think and care about them.
Abed explained that he was not able to tolerate the cold for more than half an hour, which made him wondering how people in Madaya can hold on all that time without any source of warm, food and drink. The fact that people in Madaya don't know when they can find a warn bed or food to eat, has worsened his feeling of pain.
In regard to acts of Shabiha and Hezbollah’s members in Germany, Abed said that some of them were in Germany even before the revolution, but with the increased numbers of refugees, they seized the chance to defame and distort refugees’.
He reported a story of a Lebanese man who supports the revolution and established a restaurant, but Shabiha damaged it and torn the flag of revolution and Lebanese flag those were put on the windows, but all what they had done, he did not care and carried on and fixed the damage.
There is a sit-in to support Madaya this Saturday 9th January in Alexanderplatz Square in Berlin, where almost 500 people would gather to support the revolution, and express solidarity to the day of relieving Syria from the Hunger Siege.
The UN said that the Syrian government has agreed to allow aid into the besieged rebel-held town of Madaya. The UN humanitarian co-ordinator said it was planning to deliver humanitarian assistance "in the coming days".
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.
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 Shiite Islamist Hezbollah movement.
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".
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