Jawad Al-Zabadani, Madaya, Baladi News
Many children in the town of Madaya demonstrated on Monday appealing to the world not to provide food and basic human rights, but to echo the suffering of their patients and wounded, and to stand in solidarity with the rest of the areas within the "The States of Hunger" they declared, defining the areas (Madaya, Fallujah , Darayya, Moadamieh, and the eastern Ghouta) as "the States of Hunger & Siege". They chose the rubble of their destroyed school in Madaya to be the platform from which they address the world.
This is one of the demonstrations organized periodically by activists in the town besieged by Hezbollah's militias and regime forces. It's also one of the media means used by activists to express their demands; "We are a team of activists in the town of Madaya trying to show the world the suffering of our people through such demonstrations and to stand in solidarity with the other besieged areas", as Firas Al-Husieen, the head of Madaya media center told Baladi news.
Abdul Halim Nammous, one of the children participating in the demonstrations expressed his feelings to Baladi news saying: "we are demonstrating to help the sick people get out of the city for treatment because we see them suffering every day. We don't know Fallujah , Darayya, Moadamieh, or the eastern Ghouta; we see them only on television and we know that they are starving and suffering like us. We pray to God every day asking to break our siege and theirs too."
Madaya is one of the most affected areas by the siege, where more than 46 people starved to death, and more than 32 died due to illnesses and the absence of treatments. Madaya was listed on the Guinness World Records as the city with the highest food prices in the world, as one kilo of rice, bulgur wheat or other basic foodstuff is sold for 350 dollars, which is far beyond what the locals can afford.
Madaya, Children
