Interview: Syria's Eastern Ghouta 'on the verge of major disaster'
Interview: Syria's Eastern Ghouta 'on the verge of major disaster'
UNHCR's Representative to Syria, Sajjad Malik, accompanied a humanitarian aid convoy that entered the besieged Syrian enclave of Duma in Eastern Ghouta on 5 March where he met some of the 393,000 people trapped there for the past five years. Afterwards in Beirut, Lebanon, he spoke to UNHCR's Head of Communications, Melissa Fleming, and described the conditions he witnessed.
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