(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two infants on Monday have lost their lives due to a rainstorm hitting the opposition-held Idlib province amid lack of basic needs, medics told Zaman al-Wasl.
Wael Tuaima, 25-day-old, and Yahya al-Hassoun 8-day-old, have lost their lives died as a result of the severe cold. Their families fled from the central province of Hama, escaping fight between rebels and militias loyal to Bashar Assad.
The rainstorm that is hitting northern Syria has caused damages for most of the towns and refugee camps on the Syrian-Turkish border.
The displaced people have been living under deteriorating humanitarian conditions as a result of the absence of aid agencies and relief efforts.
International Refugee Rights Organisation deputy chairman Abdullah Resul Demir told Anadolu Agency said "(Syrian) children are the ones mostly affected by this war. Because they are perhaps the most needy and vulnerable beings on the earth".
Demir's remarks came ahead of the Universal Children's Day.
"Children rights are defined by international law. However, in the past six years, we have seen that when our Syrian children are in question, all international laws and humanity fail," he said.
Demir noted that UNICEF's report in September 2017 has shown that a total of 8.5 million children -- 6 million in Syria, 2.5 million out of the country -- were affected by the conflict.
He added that 8 out of 10 Syrian children are "children of war" and 1.7 million live in the most intense areas of the conflict, while 2 million cannot go to school.
Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating civil war that began in early 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the fighting and more than 10 million displaced, according to the U.N.
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