-Eva Bartlett
On December 28, 2015, the United Nation’s OCHA made its first express Twitter mention of two northern Syrian villages, al-Foua and Kafarya (also transliterated as Kafraya).
The belated Decembar mention is in spite of the fact that the two villages of rerportedly 30,000 people have been locked under siege by terrorist factions Jebhat al-Nusra (al Qaeda in Syria), Jaysh al-Fattah (the so-called “Army of Conquest”), and Ahrar al-Sham (Liberation of the Levant Movement), among other terorist factions, since March 2015. The siege has meant that the isolated villages have had limited to no access to food and medical supplies since then. Additionally, terrorists have been daily firing mortars and hell cannons at the villages, killing and maiming residents, destroying homes and infrastructure.
In October, 2015, the ICRC reported that al-Foua and Kafarya were among several areas to receive humanitarian assistance.
OCHA’s tweets around that time made no specific…
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