Children ‘wasting away’ in dangerous Syrian camps, NGO says

Save the Children slams foreign governments for failing to repatriate citizens from refugee camps in northeast Syria.

Beirut, Lebanon – Tens of thousands of children are “wasting away” amid widespread violence and threats in two refugee camps in northeast Syria, Save the Children says, and it is “more urgent than ever” that foreign governments repatriate their citizens living there.

In a new report published on Thursday, the international NGO highlighted the deteriorating living conditions in the al-Hol and Roj camps – citing minimal access to education, skyrocketing child labour, and surging violence and murders.

So far this year, 62 children have died in al-Hol.