
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Idlib, Syria’s sole remaining rebel province is on the verge of the biggest humanitarian crisis of the 21st century". So says the UN’s top official responsible for emergency relief. Almost a million civilians have fled their homes since December. Shaun Ley interviews Dr Mufaddal Hamadeh, president of the Syrian American Medical Society. He’s been to Idlib this year, and seen for himself the carnage of war, and how hospitals and clinics which should give sanctuary have been bombed. After nine years of war, have we become indifferent to Syria’s pain?
By BBC World Service4.4
327327 ratings
Idlib, Syria’s sole remaining rebel province is on the verge of the biggest humanitarian crisis of the 21st century". So says the UN’s top official responsible for emergency relief. Almost a million civilians have fled their homes since December. Shaun Ley interviews Dr Mufaddal Hamadeh, president of the Syrian American Medical Society. He’s been to Idlib this year, and seen for himself the carnage of war, and how hospitals and clinics which should give sanctuary have been bombed. After nine years of war, have we become indifferent to Syria’s pain?

7,594 Listeners

4,165 Listeners

375 Listeners

524 Listeners

1,052 Listeners

294 Listeners

5,475 Listeners

1,799 Listeners

1,750 Listeners

1,043 Listeners

2,095 Listeners

975 Listeners

196 Listeners

744 Listeners

50 Listeners

3,180 Listeners

720 Listeners

143 Listeners

1,015 Listeners

269 Listeners

25 Listeners

150 Listeners