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's regime has intensified its bombardment of the besieged region outside Damascus, killing more than 245 civilians including dozens of children.
On Saturday, the Damascus government eased up its strikes on Eastern Ghouta as it faced Israeli air raids on what Israel said were regime and Iranian targets inside the country.
But the regime raids picked up again on Saturday night, killing six civilians and wounding more than 50 others, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.
Five of those, including two children, were killed in the region's main town of Douma, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said.
Western powers have expressed alarm over the government's campaign against Eastern Ghouta, where 400,000 people have been besieged since 2013, facing severe food and medicine shortages.
The U.N. Security Council is considering a draft resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to allow for urgent deliveries of humanitarian aid
, according to the text seen by AFP on Friday.Rebels fire rockets at elementary school in Damascus, 2 children killed
[ALMASDARNEWS] The rebel forces in the East Ghouta region of Damascus fired several mortar shells and rockets into the Syrian capital on Sunday, an al-Masdar field correspondent reported this afternoon.
According to al-Masdar’s correspondent in Damascus, the rebel forces fired more than 40 rockets and mortar shells into the the Qassa, Bab Touma, Duwela, and Jaramana districts of the capital, killing at least five civilians and wounding ten others.
Among the five civilians killed were two children that were leaving their school in the Jaramana district on Sunday ‐ three of their classmates were also seriously maimed.
Several rockets struck the area around the Jaramana elementary school, forcing the Syrian government’s civil defense forces to rush to the scene of this attack in order to help escort the children to safety.