One is too many, but now we have seen four Sussex residents lose their lives after taking an active involvement in the blood-stained battlegrounds of Syria.

Three of the four that have died had not even reached their 20th birthdays. Jaffar Deghayes is the latest Muslim to die after travelling to the Middle East to attempt to topple the Bashar Al-Assad regime at 17.

There is no conceivable way to justify a teenager dying in a warzone more than 2,500 miles away from his home.

The most worrying thing is that this news, although it shakes us to our core, does not bludgeon you with a wrecking-ball as it once did. Whatever these young men think they are going to achieve by entering the warzone, and however noble it may seem to fight for oppressed civilians, they are adding to the turmoil.

There are things we would all fight and die for, but with this cause there is so much people can do to help from their own homes.

Raise funds, send aid, collect clothes, increase awareness – these will all help the Syrian civilians. And that’s coming from Mr Deghayes, the man who has lost two sons.