200,000 Syrian child refugees at risk Um Ibrahim, 76, has been left to care for her grandchildren, now all taking refuge in a cold breezeblock shelter with a tin roof in Lebanon: "My daughter was in the courtyard washing clothes. She had just told the children to go inside when the bomb hit. After that I fled to Lebanon with her four children. I picked potatoes for $4 per day to support them. I have also lost 7 nephews in the war; two were rebel fighters, two were shot in popular protests, and three were killed by shelling. I have nobody left but God! Costs of heating fuel are far beyond many of the families' means and with the rain, tents and mattresses are getting soaked. Many do not have the clothes they need to keep warm. "In the Al Qaem camp in Iraq, children have told us that they haven't washed for more than two weeks because the water is ice cold," said Mr Penrose. Without money to pay for such work, winter could leave thousands of refugees facing serious health problems that could prove deadly the charity warned. Separately, the Syrian regime criticised France for hosting an opposition ambassador, with Ali Haidar, the national reconciliation minister, accusing them of "acting like a hostile nation." France on Saturday invited the newly formed opposition bloc to send an envoy to Paris.