Civilians in Syria’s besieged town of Madaya are dying from malnutrition, starvation, and other preventable diseases, according to a new report published today by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS). The report,“Madaya: Portrait of a Syrian Town under Siege,” shows that the Syrian government’s stranglehold on the town of 40,000 – and the international community’s continued failure to provide sufficient lifesaving aid – has led to scores of preventable deaths over the past year.