Damascus: One-month-old Sahar, her ribs protruding under translucent skin, breathed her last on Sunday in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, where a crushing regime siege has pushed hundreds of children to the brink of starvation. Only a trickle of humanitarian aid ever reaches this rebel-held region east of Damascus, under a tight blockade by Assad regime forces since 2013. On Saturday, the parents of Sahar Dofdaa, just 34 days old, took her to a hospital in the Eastern Ghouta town of Hamouria. Images filmed by a reporter working with AFP showed a wide-eyed girl with listless eyes and little but skin on her bones. She tried to cry but lacked the strength to make much of a noise. Her young mother sobbed nearby. Her skeletal thighs poked out of a nappy way over her size. Placed on the scales, she weighed less than two kilogrammes (just over 4 pounds). Like hundreds of children in Ghouta, Sahar was suffering from acute malnutrition. Her mother was too undernou...
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