https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/05\/middleeast\/ghouta-protest-intl\/index.html<\/p>\n
Activists in besieged Eastern Ghouta have taken to wrapping dead bodies in United
\nNations banners to express residents’ “frustration” with the international community, activist monitoring group the
\nDamascus Media Center told CNN.
\nOne such photo, showing two children wrapped in the flag of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), made the rounds
\non social media over the weekend. Activist Rami Jarrah said the children had died in an airstrike on Saturday night.
\nCNN has been unable to contact the photographer to verify the assertion.<\/p>\n
Activists said they received the photo from a group inside Eastern Ghouta, one of the last rebel-held enclaves in
\nSyria. Nearly 600 people are believed to have died and more than 2,000 injured in Syrian government air and
\nground strikes there since an oensive
\nbegan February 18, according to the United Nations. Nearly 400,000
\npeople are believed to be trapped inside the enclave.
\nSince the UN Security Council unanimously voted for a ceasefire in Syria one week ago, violence has escalated,
\naccording to the UN Regional Coordinator for the Syrian crisis Panos Moumtzis. “Instead of a much-needed
\nreprieve, we continue to see more fighting, more death, and more disturbing reports of hunger and hospitals being
\nbombed,” Moumtzis said in a statement on Sunday. “This collective punishment of civilians is simply
\nunacceptable,” he said.
\nJarrah said the photo oers
\na vivid illustration of the plight facing people in Eastern Ghouta.
\n“(The photo) shows the extent to which these people are desperate, where they’re not thinking about their children
\nthat just died. They’re thinking about the possibility of 400,000 people dying,” he said.<\/p>\n
“They’re using that moment to protest to the world. And I think that’s just outrageous that parents can be pushed
\nto that extent,” Jarrah added.
\nIn two tweets, UNHCR Communications Chief Melissa Fleming
\nwrote: “The @UN humanitarian community, which includes
\n450 of my colleagues in Syria, has been doing everything
\nwithin their power to reach people in need – the blame for all
\nthe suering
\nlies with those who deny access or drop bombs
\non children.”
\n“A distinction should be made between teams in Syria trying
\nto save lives and those with political influence who could end
\nthis mad war,” she added.
\nUNHCR ocials
\ntold CNN that the tweets were the
\norganization’s ocial
\nresponse to the photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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