tube by opposition activists, the 2 and a half-year-old struggles for life. his body can t take solid good. it can only digest milk but there isn t any for him. through skype we reached the pediatrician who treated him. there are many illnesses we re con fronting because of an absolute absence of food. we have depleted all of our food reserves. even animal products that could act as alternatives because there s no animals left. most of the residents to the southeast of damascus have long fled. among the 15,000 who remain, an estimated 5,000 are children. under siege for months by regime forces. cut off from all aid. for us, the fact that reports keep coming in from the area indicating that people rp dying