Syrian War Research Paper

War and Children, two things that should never go together, but happen too often. Especially, the war in Syria. Many Syrian children don’t have access to education, clean water, food and optimum health care. Schooling and Prescribed Medication have become rarities. The Syrian War is the most damaging war for children in the area’s modern history not only with physical violence but the mental scarring is just as damaging. With the death tolls rising, children are the main targets. There are many who try to escape, but even when they think they’re safe the unpredictable can happen.

Primarily, many children are too small and inexperienced to cook food or cleanse the dirty water. These children are hard to reach seeing as they live in very desolate conditions not to mention it’s in “the middle of nowhere” which gives humanitarians a small difficulty in reaching these kids. The hospitals are few and far between, which for young children, who cannot walk all that way to get the medical care that they need it leaves them sickened, weak and (for those who need them) without necessary prescribed medicines for

“Violence has no bigger target than children in Syria, who are often are not accidental victims of war, but rather deliberately targeted. Witnesses say children and infants have been killed by snipers, or become victims of summary executions or torture 5.5 million Syrian children now need support because of the conflict, that number has more than doubled in the past year, not to mention the . 1.2 million children who are refugees living in camps and host communities in neighboring countries also suffer from the war.” as stated by Voice of America online newspaper. Before, in many wars citizens would be taken out of the fighting area, but now they are just as a part of it as the soldiers who’re fighting. In fact, children have been used to get ransom money from dictators and resistance fighters