BEIRUT: The civilian death toll in Eastern Ghouta since Syria and its ally Russia intensified their bombardment of the rebel enclave on February 18 topped 600 Wednesday, a monitor said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 147 of the 601 civilians killed, mostly in air strikes, were children.The rise in casualties came in part from the discovery of bodies that had remained trapped in the rubble of destroyed buildings by rescuers who took advantage of a Russian-brokered ?humanitarian pause? to search for survivors.Civilians in Syria?s Eastern Ghouta enclave shunned Russia?s offer of safe passage for a second day Wednesday, as rebels and Moscow blamed each other for the humanitarian deadlock. Reporters saw no movement at the Wafideen checkpoint through which would-be evacuees were told to exit Eastern Ghouta, which the government lost in 2012 and has besieged almost ever since.
03-01-2018, 07:58 AM
Syria?s Ghouta enclave death toll tops 600
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