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Thursday, December 20, 2012

[Syria] IRIN - IDPs brace for winter in rebel-controlled camps


[Picture from same article - copyright irinnews.org, 19/12/2012 -Jodi Hilton/IRIN]

19.12.2012. Ragad, 10, uses crutches to gingerly make her way up a muddy hillside. On her right foot, she wears a bright blue rubber shoe. The other foot is missing, amputated below the knee.

She was injured when a bomb destroyed her family home in Hass, 86km southwest of Syria’s largest city, Aleppo. Many parts of Aleppo are now in ruins after nearly six months of urban warfare; and most of the 25,000 inhabitants of Hass have fled.

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