Doctors in Syria’s rebel-controlled suburbs of Damascus have said they cannot keep up with the number of casualties, amid shelling by government forces.
The bombing campaign has targeted hospitals, apartment blocks and other civilian sites, killing and wounding hundreds of people in recent days.
The bombardment has forced many among the nearly 400,000 residents to sleep in basements and makeshift shelters, and has overwhelmed rescue workers who have spent days digging out survivors from the wreckage of bombed buildings.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate suspension of “all war activities” in the rebel-held Damascus suburbs known as eastern Ghouta where he said 400,000 people are living “in hell on earth”.
Syrian paramedics treat a kids who was wounded during airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, at a makeshift hospital, in Ghouta, suburb of Damascus, Syria.
The UN chief said a suspension of fighting must allow for humanitarian aid to reach all in need and the evacuation of some 700 people needing urgent medical treatment.
Bishop Declan Lang, Chair of the Bishops’ Conference Department for International Affairs, has called the killing of civilians in Eastern Ghouta a “grievous offence to our common humanity”.
He said: “Their suffering underscores how over seven…
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