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In Syria’s Aleppo, children bear the brunt of deliberate water cuts

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Fatimet-Zahra’s mom is the only breadwinner in the family. She has to work all day selling snacks. The time consuming and exhausting task of water collecting is left to little Fatimet.
In Syria, water is being used as a weapon of war by parties to the conflict, affecting millions of civilians, depriving them of this lifeline while simultaneously affecting public health and hygiene. UNICEF has documented deliberate water cuts in areas including Aleppo, Damascus, Rural Damascus, Dar’a and Hama. In 2015 alone, over five million Syrians faced potentially life-threatening water shortages as a result of these tactics.
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