14 million children suffer as a result of war in Syria and Iraq

Some 14 million children suffer from war traumas in Syria and Iraq, the United Nations Children's Agency reports, stressing that children need special treatment to cope with the severe violence they have recently experienced by extremist groups.

“Dhuna and suffering not only have damaged their past, but they will find it difficult to form their future”, said Anthony Lake, who quoted a UnicefG report on the plight of 5.6 million children in Syria and another two million who have fled as refugees.

“While the crisis enters the fifth year, the youth generation is still in danger of losing in this cycle of violence, having difficulty rehabilitation of a future”, Lake said.

The Unicefı report details the situation of civilians in Syria in a conflict that has killed more than 200,000 people.

The year 2014 is described as the worst, as the parties involved in this conflict have ignored three UN Security Council resolutions seeking humanitarian assistance access, where the number of children in need of assistance has increased.

“This worst crisis of our humanism era should spur a global support protest, but instead, aid is reducing”, the head of the United Nations refugee agency said in a statement Thursday.

In Syria, some 2.8 million children are still trying to follow a form of teaching among the ruins and destruction resulting from conflict.

An attack on a school in eastern Damascus that killed at least 11 children in November 2014 was one of 68 school attacks registered this year, Unicef said.

In Raqqa, the headquarters of the Islamic State has reopened schools that teach extremist ideologies, Hanna Singer, official of Unicefı, pointing to propaganda videos distributed by the Islamic State showing children taught to drop bombs and placing them under vehicles, reports “News York Times”, Transmission Periscope.

At the same time, all aspects of humanitarian aid and defence have had shortcomings in financing, Singer said. “We are seeking long-term investments from donors so that children can survive and start building their next stages of life”, she said.

Unicef had demanded about $815m for her operations in Syria and neighbouring countries in 2015, but since the beginning of March, she had received little more than one tenth of that amount.

“We cannot give up Syria's” people, Singer said./Periscopi/