Record 12.3 million Syrian children need aid, say UN


Volunteers from Syria's Violet Org charity's psychological support unit organise games during Eid al-Fitr celebrations for displaced children at a camp in the village of Killi in the Syrian rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib, on May 3, 2022. – AFP pic, May 8, 2022.


MORE Syrian children are in need than at any time since a devastating civil war erupted over a decade ago, but funding for them is “dwindling”, the United Nations warned today.

“Syria’s children have suffered for far too long and should not suffer any longer,” the UN children’s agency said in a statement, noting that 12.3 million were in need of aid both inside the country and in the wider region where they had fled.


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