More than 1,000 children have been killed or injured this year across Syria, a United Nations Children’s Fund official told CNN.
The grim statistic, from UNICEF regional communications chief Juliette Touma, comes as violence rips through the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, where about a third of the nearly 400,000 besieged civilians are children.
In all, 342 children were killed and 803 were injured in Syria in the first two months of 2018, Touma added.
Sitting in underground shelters has become the “new norm,” UNICEF officials said, and activists’ footage of basements show the shelters to be ill-equipped and filthy.
Source: CNN
