In Syria's Aleppo, 'We're starving ... what about my children?'

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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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[Glory Skales Charity]

give them food to eat oo.they need it

[Shola Sholaz]

Syria is a danger zone rite about now.i pity the citizens