Record 12.3 million Syrian children need aid: UN

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 Sunday.

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This picture taken on May 7, 2022 shows an aerial view of a youth reacting before the remains of a burnt-down tent following a fire caused by the malfunctioning battery of a solar panel, at a camp for Syrians displaced by conflict near the village of Haranbush in the rebel-held part of the northwestern province of Idlib province. --Photo: Omar Haj Kadour / AFP

2022-05-08 14:44:24

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 Sunday.

"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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