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Syrian jets bombard rebels enclave, kill 100 civilians

Updated on: 21 February,2018 11:27 AM IST  |  Damascus
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UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 470 people were injured, some critically

Syrian jets bombard rebels enclave, kill 100 civilians

Heavy Syrian bombardment killed dozens of civilians in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta. Pics/AFP/PTI/AP
Heavy Syrian bombardment killed dozens of civilians in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta. Pics/AFP/PTI/AP


At least 100 civilians, including 20 children, were killed and hundreds wounded as Syrian government forces bombarded rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area outside Damascus, a war monitor said.


The Eastern Ghouta is the last remaining opposition-held enclave near the capital and is completely surrounded by areas under government control. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said at least 470 people were injured, some critically, in a barrage of airstrikes, rocket fire and artillery slammed into towns across Eastern Ghouta on Monday.


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If confirmed, it would make Monday one of the deadliest days for the district since it came under siege in 2013 by the government of Bashar al-Assad and subjected to devastating chemical attacks, the BBC reported. Four hospitals, including a maternity facility, were also bombed in the area, reports said.

"We are standing before the massacre of the 21st century," said a doctor. "If the massacre of the 1990s was Srebrenica, and the massacres of the 1980s were Halabja and Sabra and Chatila, then Eastern Ghouta is the massacre of this century right now."

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He added, "A little while ago a child came to me who was blue in the face and barely breathing, his mouth filled with sand... I don't think they had what we do in any of the medical textbooks. A wounded child breathing with lungs of sand." "It's not a war. It's called a massacre," the doctor told the Guardian daily. Agencies

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