(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121222_aleppo-bread.photoblog600.jpg)Ahmed Jadallah / ReutersA boy holds pita bread as others stand in line outside a bakery in Aleppo, Syria, on Friday.By Yara Bayoumy, ReutersALEPPO, Syria -- In Syria's once-affluent merchant city of Aleppo, a 60-year-old man wrapped in several layers of clothes lines up alongside his shivering grandchildren for bread -- a daily and often fruitless ritual that consumes most of his day.
Shielding himself from the rain in Bustan al-Qasr, a rebel-held district in the southwest of Syria's biggest city, Alaa el-Din Hout says shortages of food and fuel are driving his family and many other residents to desperation.
"We're starving. I can bear it but what about my children? I stand from 3 in the afternoon until 11 at night and you can't always get bread," said Hout, wearing a winter hat and scarf to keep out the winter cold.
"We're reduced to either begging or stealing."
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give them food to eat oo.they need it
Syria is a danger zone rite about now.i pity the citizens