Angelina Jolie visits Syrian refugees in Jordan

UN goodwill ambassador and actress Angelina Jolie visited a refugee tent camp in Jordan near the Syrian border and spoke about the horrors that children have seen in Syria. Hoping to call attention to the Syrian crisis, Jolie went to the border escorted by the Jordanian military and saw for herself how Syrians became refugees. “The amount of innocent children that have been reported dead, the amount of innocent children I’ve met here who are wounded and unaccompanied – with their parents being killed and now they’re on their own – it’s impossible to imagine any mother standing by and not stepping up and doing something to prevent this,” Jolie said. Syria has been gripped by a prolonged crisis in the past 18 months that has claimed more than 20,000 lives.

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