Syria refugee children risk starvation in Lebanon Mirvat Ibrahim and her family fled from Syria's embattled Aleppo to Lebanon four months ago. Now she is struggling to feed her eight children. Her youngest daughter Shorouq, only nine months old, suffers from malnutrition and weighs only 3.8 kilos. Nearly 2,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon are in danger of starving to death if they do not receive immediate treatment, according to UNICEF. Images and soundbites