UN convoy carrying aid to Madaya - AFP
According to AFP, in a press conference in Geneva (Switzerland), Mr. Sajjad Malik, representing the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), declared: "Nothing can compare to what we witnessed is in Madaya ". He stressed there were many people here starving towns by the Syrian army besieged and blockaded for months.
Earlier UN Ambassador Bashar Jaafari Syria in affirmative in Madaya "zero hunger". However the charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said there have been 28 people in the town died of starvation. Yesterday, a convoy of trucks carrying aid from the UN, Organization of Syrian Red Crescent and the International Red Cross (ICRC) arrived in Madaya.
"There is no life" - Mr Malik, who is on a convoy, described. He said there people too weak and exhausted with hunger that they can not speak the words. Food complete wipeout, "so many people kept trying to repeat that one kilogram of rice cost up to 300 USD" - Mr. Malik said.
Having a family to sell motorcycle just to buy 4 kilograms of rice. A total of 40,000 people had to live in poverty and suffer many months. They told UN staff that in recent weeks, the only source of their food as soup is from grass, cook for a few minutes remaining spices.
Because electricity is lost, people Madaya to heating by burning cardboard.
"We give them everything we have in the car" - Mr. Malik said. Under an agreement with the Syrian government, the United Nations be allowed to bring two more shipments of aid to this town.
But the two sides have yet to reach an agreement on time. The World Health Organization (WHO) wants to find information about people starving and want to deploy mobile medical teams to Madaya. Mr. Malik confirmed the need to maintain aid flows to Madaya in the harsh winter months this.
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