ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Medical supplies have been almost depleted in the besieged Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria, a health official warned on Tuesday, urging urgent international aid to “save the lives of children.”

 Syrian Arab Army and its affiliated factions have imposed a suffocating siege on the symbolic city of Kobane for over a week, with the UN reporting increasingly “worsening” humanitarian conditions in the city, days after five children died from severe cold and a lack of medical supplies. 

“The health situation is getting worse, and we only have medicine left for one more week,” Aziza Ibrahim, co-chair of Kobane’s health department, told The New Region. 

“If aid does not arrive, our warehouses and pharmacies will be empty. We call on international philanthropists to speak up to save the lives of children,” she stressed. 

Concerns over depleting supplies are also mounting in other parts of Rojava (northeast Syria), as Damascus-linked factions continue their attacks despite a ceasefire in place. 

The siege on Kobane has also left thousands without water, electricity, internet, and with a shortage of food and medicine.

On Saturday, the Syrian defense ministry announced a 15-day extension to its ceasefire with the Kurdish-led SDF, but attacks by Damascus-aligned forces continue regardless.

Rojava’s authorities have described the campaign by Damascus as an “existential” war, issuing a call for “resistance” across all parts of Greater Kurdistan.