Additionally, more than 3.7 million Syrian children have been born since the bombs began to drop in 2011.
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Photos of children holding pictures of Pokemon characters have been circulating on the internet.
Photographs of children in besieged Syrian towns holding pictures of Pokemon characters and appealing for help were published by the Syrian National Coalition, an alliance of Western-backed activist and rebel groups.
“Absolutely nothing justifies attacks on children”, Hanna Singer, UNICEF representative in Syria, said in a prepared statement issued Thursday.
One of the children’s messages, written in Arabic, says: “I am in Kafr Nabl, in rural Idlib, come and save me!”
An organization opposed to Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Revolutionary Forces of Syria, based in Turkey, has been posting the images.
“Syrian children are victims of the war and the brutal and indiscriminate attacks that are carried out on a daily basis by regime and Russian jets”.
Hundreds of people commented on the Facebook post expressing sympathy and sharing prayers for the children.
The campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokemon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones, reports the Guardian.
“If only augmented reality could save lives here is Syria”.
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An estimated 400,000 people have been killed in Syria’s ongoing civil war, according to Al Jazeera. “The Syrian children are paying the price for the global inaction to stop the Assad killing machine”.
