This little Syrian girl has been named as one of those who died when a boat containing more than 200 migrants capsized.

The vessel was carrying people “who were trying to illegally leave Lebanon’s territorial waters” off Selaata, north of the capital Beirut on 31st December, according to an army statement.

Lebanon is facing a major economic crisis made worse by a massive influx of mostly Syrian migrants, and only today (3 Jan), the humanitarian organisation Save The Children warned that hunger is likely to increase by 14 per cent soon unless urgent action is taken.

The organisation said: “Four in 10 Lebanese and Syrian refugee children in the country currently face high acute food insecurity due to a food crisis caused by years of economic instability and fuelled by global climate and hunger shocks.”

They said that Lebanon was the sixth worst food crisis globally for share of population that is food insecure, after South Sudan, Yemen, Haiti, Afghanistan and the Central African Republic.

Lebanon’s navy and U.N. peacekeepers managed to pull 236 people to safety, but two of the migrants drowned – including five-year-old Wafaa Fizo, who had fled her home in Maarat al-Numan in Syria to Lebanon with her family.

From there, she was hoping to make it to Europe.

But the boat she was on sank in the Mediterranean Sea only a few hours after it left northern Lebanon’s coast.

The army said three Lebanese navy boats and one from the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, rescued the migrants.

The crisis in Lebanon means many of the migrants arriving are forced to seek protection elsewhere.

In the case of Wafaa Fizo that meant risking the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean to the coast of Cyprus, but she never made it.