The international charity said the last remaining open road out of Khan Eshieh, a Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus, was shut this week by heavy shelling and sniper fire, The Guardian reported.
Save the Children said three youths were reportedly shot dead trying to escape the camp, while the Assad regime intensified the bombing, dropping dozens of barrel bombs on the area.
"Despite the supposed ceasefire across the country, people are living in terror of siege and bombardment," Sonia Khush, the head of Save the Children’s Syria programme, said.
Only one doctor and one dentist are believed to remain in the camp, and they do not have enough medicine, equipment and electricity to treat patients, Al-Jazeera reported it as saying.
"People in Khan Eshieh tell us that most medicine, fuel and flour has almost run out, and food prices have doubled in the past few days. They expect it to get even worse in the coming days. The roads and access to the camp must urgently be reopened and vital humanitarian aid immediately allowed in."
News of the siege emerged as an aid convoy carrying medicine, vaccines and baby milk to Darayya – a suburb of Damascus that has been under siege for more than three years – was prevented from entering the town by terrorists loyal to Assad’s brother, Maher, even though the Assad regime had agreed to the deal.
According to the Jafra Foundation, which provides aid in the camp, civilians were able to use one road - known locally as ’the Death Road’ due to the high risk of travelling on it - to get food, medicine and supplies from the nearby town of Zakia, The Independent reported.
But, it said, in recent weeks medicine has been prevented from entering Zakia and the road has now been closed.
Khan Eshieh has been partially besieged for nearly three years, with all the main roads between the camp and Damascus closed since 2013 and Assad military checkpoints around the camp to prevent people from entering and leaving.
Despite the recent February agreement to increase humanitarian access to besieged areas of Syria, hundreds of thousands of families are still without aid. Only 17% of the more than 4.5 million people in besieged and hard-to-reach areas have so far received assistance, and UN aid convoys continue to be denied permission. At least six besieged areas have still not received any aid at all, Relief Web reported.
The vast majority of the blockades are orchestrated by the Assad regime. The blocking of the aid deliveries has raised further questions about the Assad regime’s commitment to allowing aid into besieged areas.
On Thursday, an aid convoy was refused entry to Daraya, a city besieged for four years by Assad regime terrorists.
The convoy - organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the UN in Syria - was refused entry at the last Assad checkpoint near the city.
The troops from the 4th Armoured Brigade, which is led by Maher, prevented the convoy’s entry until the mission was aborted.
Shortly afterwards, Assad terrorists then fired shells at the crowd that had gathered in the town center to receive the aid, killing two people and wounding five civilians, including a father and his son waiting for aid.
Maher was seen as a key figure in the immediate crackdown on protesters when the uprising in Syria began in 2011, an uncompromising character who sought to use maximum force against demonstrators.
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