Hundreds of thousands of children in Sudan need humanitarian assistance. 500 days of siege of Sudanese El Fashir: children die from violence, disease and hunger Humanitarian assistance position of children in Sudanese el-fashire, which has been under the siege for 500 days, continues to deteriorate. This is reported on Wednesday from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Hunger, illness and violence take the lives of young children daily. In recent months, at least 600 thousand people, half of which were children, were forced to leave El Fashir and adjacent camps. According to estimates, about 260 thousand civilians remain in the city itself, including 130 thousand children who are in a desperate position. For 16 months they have been cut off from humanitarian assistance. ~ 60 > Executive Director UNISEF Catherine Russell said that the efforts of the fund for providing the population of food assistance are blocked, and urged the organization to provide organic access to El Fashir, at the other hostilities. “Blocation of humanitarian access is a gross violation of children’s rights,” she emphasized. ~ 60 > “Children should be protected and have access to vital assistance,” added Russell. from the beginning of the siege in April in April 2024 only in El Fashir were killed and injured more than 1000 children. Many died in their homes or camps for displaced persons. At least 23 children became victims of rape, including group. It is also reported about the abductions, recruitment of children and the use of them with armed groups. ~ 60 > this week reports of the next case with mass victims: seven children were reported as a result of an attack on the camp for the internal movements of Abu Shuk, located on the outskirts of the outskirts El-fashira. The siege of El Fashira completely blocked the supply paths. Medical institutions and mobile groups of food assistance were forced to suspend work, since the reserves in the city are over and new supplies are impossible. 60 > according to estimates, about 6,000 children suffer from acute malnutrition and cannot receive the necessary treatment. In one week, at least 63 people died from malnutrition, mainly women and children. ~ 60 > dozens of children will die without a therapeutic nutrition. At the same time, medical institutions often find themselves under the blows: 35 hospitals were attacked, including the Saudi obstetric hospital in El Fashir, which suffered more than 10 times, as a result of which many patients were killed and wounded, including children. In January, the shelling destroyed the therapeutic medical center in the Abu-Shuk camp, having deprived thousands of children of the possibility of treatment. 60 > in Sudan the largest cholera outbreak in the last decades. Since July 2024, more than 96 thousand cases of disease and 2400 deaths have been registered throughout the country. In crowded camps around Tavila, Zamzam and El Fashira, children weakened by hunger are extremely vulnerable to deadly diseases. ~ 60 > ~ 60 > unisef calls the Sudan government and all other interested parties to promote the constant, unavailable and safe access of humanitarian organizations to children, wherever they are. & nbsp;