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Air raids in E. Ghouta near Damascus kill 25 civilians: Monitor
[AlAhram] A wave of Syrian air strikes on Sunday killed at least 25 civilians and maimed dozens across the besieged rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus, a monitor said.The deadliest raids hit the town of Hammuriyeh, killing 17 civilians including six children, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Other air strikes on the towns of Arbeen, Beit Sawa, Harasta and Misraba killed eight civilians. The Observatory said at least 75 people were maimed and the corpse count was likely to rise given the critical wounds suffered by dozens of people. Eastern Ghouta, one of the last remaining rebel strongholds in Syria, has been under a heavy government siege since 2013 that has caused drastic food and medical shortages. An estimated 400,000 people still live in the enclave, and the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... has warned that hundreds are at risk of death if they are not evacuated for urgent medical treatment. The area is one of four "de-escalation zones" agreed earlier this year by regime allies Russia and Iran and rebel backer ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... aimed at curbing violence across war-ravaged Syria. Syria's government agreed last week to a ceasefire in the region to coincide with the resumption of UN-led peace talks in Geneva. But heavy bombardment of the opposition enclave near the capital has resumed, with another 11 civilians killed on Saturday. The Observatory said Sunday's deaths took the number of civilians killed in regime bombardment of Eastern Ghouta to at least 191, including 43 children, in nearly three weeks. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-12-04 |
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