Sanctions will get lifted imo15 Dec 2016 12:02
With eastern Aleppo city as well as Douma in rural Damascus and al-Waer in Homs, Madaya is one of the four communities cited in the report as in need of "immediate and unfettered international assistance to prevent looming humanitarian catastrophes". Last winter, at least 65 of Madaya's 40,000 residents starved to death because of insufficient food supplies.
This year, food supplies are still minimal with conventional gas and diesel supplies absent, people burn their possessions for fuel. "When we want to be warm or heat something or cook we break our furniture from our bedrooms and living rooms -anything made from wood, we break it and burn it to keep warm and to cook," Darwish said.