Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 23-02-2018
Death is raining down on Eastern Ghouta as Syrian government forces backed by Russian warplanes continue their aerial bombardment of the rebel-held area which is one of the last remaining enclaves near the Syrian capital of Damascus.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 403 people have been killed in the “hysterical attack” that began on Sunday, including 150 children. Almost 2,120 others are wounded.
Ghouta has been under siege for the past five years and has battled before with starvation and bombings.
Residents of Ghouta have not received assistance since last year when the last humanitarian aid convoy entered the area.
Radio Islam’s Middle East Correspondent Rayhaanah Omar says the situation is heart-breaking.
“People are not only starving to death but over half a million people are trapped in their basements and their home. They are running out of food and medicine and they are now resorting to using expired medication to treat people who are wounded.”
Omar says even schools and hospitals have not been spared from what the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres described as “hell on earth”.
“We hearing that this could be a massacre on a scale of what happen in Srebrenica, in Bosnia, Kosovo at least two decades ago and this continues to happen in this modern day and age we are living in. They are literally throwing body parts is mass graves and people are overwhelmed by what’s happening.”
While residents of Eastern Ghouta, majority of whom are internally displaced, say there is nothing they can do and nowhere to hide Omar say not enough is being done help people on the ground.
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