Pierre Le Corf: The sanctions aren’t just starving Syrians & killing hope, they’re killing people.

While in Damascus recently, I spoke with Pierre Le Corf, a French humanitarian I’ve known since 2016 I’ve known since 2016, who has been living in Syria for the past six years, and has seen and deeply experienced all aspects of the war on Syria, living mainly in Aleppo. Given that Pierre lives among Syria’s poorest families and devotes his time to helping poor communities in a myriad of ways, he is well-equipped to talk in detail about how Western sanctions against Syria are hurting the people. Excerpts:“You might not see people starving in the street, but that’s not what suffering is. People are suffering in silence. More and more, the youth are leaving the country, not because they want to leave Syria or feel oppressed, but because they feel that they have no hope anymore. The currency went from 50 Syrian pounts (before the war) to 4,000 Syrian pounds. People work from morning to night, and at the end of the day, their kids might ask for a banana. One kilogram of bananas is 5,000 Syri