{"id":11988,"date":"2026-03-02T14:22:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hskurd.org\/?p=11988"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:22:37","slug":"five-children-have-died-so-far-due-to-the-siege-imposed-on-kobani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hskurd.org\/?p=11988&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Five children have died so far due to the siege imposed on Kobani."},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Due to the ongoing siege imposed on Kobani, five children (including infants) have tragically passed away so far as a result of the severe drop in temperatures and the acute shortage of heating fuel and essential medical supplies.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The continuation of this siege poses a grave and direct threat to the lives of children, the sick, and the elderly.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We urgently appeal to the international community, as well as humanitarian and human rights organizations, to intervene immediately to break the siege and secure fuel and relief materials before more lives are lost.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We confirm that our staff, relief teams, and aid trucks are in a state of maximum readiness to move immediately and provide medical and relief support to our people in Kobani as soon as the road is secured.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Furthermore, we call upon all international powers and parties to exert urgent pressure to open a safe humanitarian corridor without any further delay.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the ongoing siege imposed on Kobani, five children (including infants) have tragically passed away so far as a result of the severe drop in temperatures and the acute shortage of heating fuel and essential medical supplies. The continuation of this siege poses a grave and direct threat to the lives of children, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2034,129],"tags":[2488],"class_list":["post-11988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-protection","tag-childrenofkobani-siegekillschildren-savekobanichildren-endthesiege-humanitariancrisis-stopthesiege"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hskurd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/619316743_1183844280577536_7058343323310123023_n.jpg?fit=1080%2C1350&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11972,"url":"https:\/\/hskurd.org\/?p=11972&lang=en","url_meta":{"origin":11988,"position":0},"title":"An appeal from the Kurdish Red Crescent team in Kobani to humanitarian organizations","author":"user55","date":"2 \u0645\u0627\u0631\u0633\u060c 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Appeal from the Kurdish Red Crescent Team in Koban\u00ea to humanitarian organizations and to the United Nations, represented by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Barham Salih: The city of Kobani and its surrounding countryside have been subjected for days to a brutal military campaign and a suffocating\u2026","rel":"","context":"\u0641\u064a &quot;Health&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/hskurd.org\/?cat=816&lang=en"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hskurd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/618809254_1183190350642929_5401222983079782706_n.jpg?fit=512%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11629,"url":"https:\/\/hskurd.org\/?p=11629&lang=en","url_meta":{"origin":11988,"position":1},"title":"Securing medicines and doses for cancer patients in Sweida..","author":"user55","date":"31 \u0623\u063a\u0633\u0637\u0633\u060c 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Cancer patients in Sweida face life-threatening difficulties. 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