UN calls for urgent evacuation of 137 sick Syrian children
The United Nations children's agency said Sunday 137 children stranded in a rebel-held suburb near the Syrian capital require immediate evacuation amid a crippling siege in which five have reportedly died from a lack of medical care.
The Eastern Ghouta suburb, home to 400,000 residents, has been besieged since 2013 and humanitarian conditions there have deteriorated sharply amid violence that intensified since November 14. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 202 people, including 47 children, have been killed since.
