Janet Jalil
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When you saw those victims, did you get a sense that they were caught up in the violence or that perhaps they were being deliberately targeted?
So it's very hard to tell.
Many of them are injured as they're fleeing their homes.
Many of them are hit in airstrikes, and so they have burn wounds.
But the wounds, and of course these are civilians that are meeting, the wounds of them look quite...
You know, if someone is shot in both in both their calves, you know, it's quite hard to do that by accident.
So certainly in the in the hospitals, we're seeing evidence, I think, of lots of deliberate targeting of civilians.
And so, you know, we've got to be out there.
What we find is that nearer the UN bases, people feel a bit safer, but ultimately they won't feel safe while this conflict is raging.
I met a lot of grandmothers who were carrying their grandchildren because their own kids had all been killed or abducted.
So you've got tragedy after tragedy after tragedy.
You've got people surviving just eating the leaves from the trees and saying that they haven't eaten properly for days.
It's truly grim.
People are eating leaves from the trees.
There is so little food.
That's right.
That's right.
They've got these lob trees, they call them, and they get the leaves down and they boil them up and they showed me what that looks like.
You know, virtually no nutritional value at all.
So one of the things we're trying to do and one of the things we've done in the last couple of days with this visit