Survival in Madaya: ‘We are living on water and salt’
Life has become a grim exercise in survival for thousands of families in the Syrian town of Madaya, where the consequences of a six-month siege have been exacerbated by the onset of winter. Harrowing images of emaciated bodies have been widely distributed, showing wide-eyed babies without access to milk, and elderly men with cavernous rib cages.…