The charity Save the Children reported that 7.3 million Syrian children are in need of humanitarian aid. The major cause is the continued Western sanctions, which have had a devastating effect both before and after the overthrow of Syria’s Assad government.
“Around 3.7 million children are out of school and they require immediate action to reintegrate them in school,” Rasha Muhrez, the charity’s Syria director, told AFP in an interview from the capital Damascus, adding: “This is more than half of the children of school age. Some of the schools were used as shelters again, due to the new wave of displaced people. About 7.5 million children need immediate humanitarian assistance.”
Muhrez warned that “continued coercive measures and sanctions on Syria have the largest impact on the Syrian people themselves.”
