{"id":25438,"date":"2018-12-13T17:23:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T17:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25438"},"modified":"2018-12-13T17:23:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T17:23:19","slug":"two-babies-die-at-idp-camp-on-syria-jordan-border-un-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25438","title":{"rendered":"Two babies die at IDP camp on Syria-Jordan border, UN says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"96.6191099476\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Two\u00a0babies\u00a0have died after an illness in the past week at a camp for internally displaced people on the Syrian border with Jordan, as the United Nations children&#8217;s agency reiterates calls for humanitarian access to the camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The deaths took place in Rukban camp, which lies in an inhospitable stretch of desert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;Another sad week for children and families in Rukban. Two sick\u00a0babies\u00a0under six months old died in Rukban,&#8221; said Geert Cappelaere, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/unicef.html\">UNICEF<\/a> regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Freezing temperatures and lack of supplies including of basic commodities, threaten the lives of nearly 45,000 people &#8211; among them many children, leaving them at the risk of disease and death,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Last month the UN and Syrian Arab Red Crescent announced the first delivery of humanitarian aid to Rukban in 10 months.<\/p>\n<p>Civilians trapped in the camp face the risk of starvation amid a deteriorating humanitarian situation after Jordan sealed its border following an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group on its soldiers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Soon afterwards, the army declared Jordan&#8217;s desert regions that stretch northeast to Syria and east to Iraq &#8220;closed military zones&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Amman believes responsibility for the camp lies with Damascus since it is inside Syrian territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Syria has been embroiled in a civil war that killed more than 360,000 people and displaced millions since it started with the brutal repression of anti-government protests in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two\u00a0babies\u00a0have died after an illness in the past week at a camp for internally displaced people on the Syrian border with Jordan, as the United Nations children&#8217;s agency reiterates calls for humanitarian access to the camp. The deaths took place in Rukban camp, which lies in an inhospitable stretch of desert. &#8220;Another sad week for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}