I don't think it's unreasonable. Why would one feel the need to hold women and children in jails at the first place. Why would one feel the need to starve people. And it goes for any side.
You are right. It goes for both sides. keeping food and water away from the general non fighting population is a crime against humanity. If the government forces are doing this then they are war criminals and should be dealt with as harshly as possible. As for the matter of jailed mothers and sisters, I would be the first to accept that the government might havetortured political activists along with the terrorists. That is unacceptable and IF that is the case then a proper enquiry should be done to find out who is responsible for it. The crime should fit the punishment. Sending Israeli mouthpieces to defend the total destruction of a country with foriegn arms and armies is not the correct way to fight any injustices done by a government of a country. If that was the case then the Taliban could do away with Nawaz Sharif because of some injustices done towards them and take over the country by getting help from Indian embassies sending them heavy weapons and anti tank and aircraft weapons.
Just for your information here is the timeline of how the siege of cities and starving of people began and where it is now.
March 2015: Foah and Kefraya in Idlib province are besieged by rebel groups and the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, with an estimated 12,500 trapped.
July 2015: Madaya, near Damascus, is besieged by government forces and their allies in Lebanon's Shia Islamist Hezbollah movement.
September 2015: The situation in Foah and Kefraya worsens after the fall of a nearby government air base, where helicopters had been able to land with food supplies. Reports emerge of people eating grass to survive.
October 2015: UN delivers one month's supply of food rations for 20,000 people in Madaya.
December 2015: Dozens of wounded civilians and fighters evacuated from Foah, Kefraya, Zabadani and Madaya. Reports begin to emerge of people starving in Madaya.
January 2016: UN says it has received credible reports of people dying of starvation in Madaya
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35449107
Now you have to ask yourself why are people still starving even with months of rations in a city.
Madaya residents starving to death despite aid delivery
Doctors Without Borders says 16 people have died in the besieged town despite provision of aid in convoys.
Residents of the besieged Syrian town of Madaya continue to die of starvation and a lack of medical supplies, despite the delivery of aid earlier this month, according to a leading humanitarian agency.
Doctors without Borders (MSF) said on Saturday that at least 16 people - close to one person per day - have died since three aid convoys entered the town, near the Lebanese border, on January 11.
The group said that an estimated 320 people in Madaya are suffering from malnutrition, 33 of whom are "are in danger of death if they do not receive prompt and effective treatment".
"It is totally unacceptable that people continue to die from starvation, and that critical medical cases remain in the town when they should have been evacuated weeks ago," said Brice de le Vingne, MSF's director of operations.
Devastating conditions
Rebel-held Madaya has been under siege by government forces and Hezbollah fighters since July.
Harrowing images of malnourished Madaya residents gripped the world in early January,
showing wide-eyed babies without access to milk, and elderly men with cavernous rib cages.
"We would go for three days without food, then we would go and gather grass to just boil and eat it," Mubarak Aloush, a Madaya resident who managed to escape to Lebanon told Al Jazeera at the time.
MSF said that 32 people have died from severe acute malnutrition since December, warning that the town urgently needed emergency aid and permanent medical staff,
"There needs to be a permanent and independent medical presence in Madaya immediately, as we expect the medical situation to worsen as access to healthcare for people inside remains extremely limited," said de le Vingne.
Up to two million Syrians are trapped in sieges by the government or by opposition groups, the group said, adding that in many of these areas medical evacuations are prevented and necessities like drugs and food are "repeatedly blocked" at checkpoints.
"As a result, medical teams in these areas simply cannot cope with the demands they face. The situation in Madaya is even worse as there are no doctors present in the town," MSF said.
Humanitatian measures
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has previously warned that the use of starvation as a weapon in Syria amounted to a "war crime".
"All sides, including the Syrian government which has the primary responsibility to protect Syrians, are committing this and other atrocious acts prohibited under international humanitarian law," he said shortly after the second international convoy in Madaya on January 14.
A delegation representing Syria's main opposition bloc was travelling to Switzerland on Saturday to assess the intentions of the Syrian government in implementing humanitarian measures that could allow it to join political negotiations.
The talks at the UN headquarters in Geneva are the first since two rounds of negotiations collapsed in 2014
Syria's conflict has killed more than 250,000 people, displaced millions and sent hundreds of thousands fleeing as refugees to Europe.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/160130122259213.html
) and then probably start the march to Raqqa.
