Trapped between 2 armies, almost 1,000,000 Syrians have nowhere to go in Idlib.
“He killed my children and destroyed Syria,” she said. “I’d rather die.”
Al-Hussain, who was wearing a dark head scarf printed with a cascade of white flowers, spoke to NBC News in a camp on the road north to Turkey.Even having a tent makes al-Hussain and her grandchildren luckier than some. Syrian children pose for a picture as their families prepare to flee a camp for the displaced, east of Sarmada in the north of the Idlib province.The speed of the front line’s movement “has been quite dramatic for a lot of the people and it’s forcing them into areas where there is such limited space,” said Sally Thomas, a project coordinator for Idlib at Doctors Without Borders.
UNICEF said it could not confirm how many had died in this way, but it had verified that 77 children were killed or injured due to the escalation of violence in northwest Syria. Countless more have been killed since the conflict began in 2011.al-Hussain’s 11-year-old granddaughter, have had their education interrupted by conflict and their childhoods cut short.
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