Syria conflict: Almost one million living under siege - UN

  22 November 2016    Read: 1017
Syria conflict: Almost one million living under siege - UN
Nearly one million people are living under siege in Syria, the UN aid chief said Monday.
The new figure of 974,080 people marks a dramatic increase from 486,700 Syrians living in besieged areas just six months ago, Stephen O’Brien told the Security Council.

O’Brien said the sieges were mostly perpetrated by Syrian government forces. Some of the areas added to the UN’s siege list are located in the Eastern Ghouta region of rural Damascus.

O’Brien, the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, renewed his call for an end to besiegement.

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