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Madaya: 'Families come to die of hunger together'

Dr Mohammed is a Syrian doctor who's been living in Madaya. It's a besieged mountainous city in Syria where starvation and death have become part of everyday life. Translating is Dr. Ammar Ghanem, a Syrian American physician who grew up in the Madaya area and agreed to translate for his colleague.

(Picture: Syrian youth Mustafa's father (C) cries hearing his son suffering as he helps a doctor to stretch the boy's legs at a physical therapy center on November 6, 2014 in Eastern al-Ghouta, a rebel-held region outside the capital Damascus; Credit: Getty Images)

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