Here’s a video from the BBC website showing a girl being rescued from under rubble, apparently after an airstrike in Damascus.
With all the other things taking Syria off the front pages in recent months, this video serves as a stark reminder of the thin line between life and death that Syrian civilians have been living in recent years.
Let the world not forget their plight.
I didn’t realize there was any significant fighting in Damascus.
I wonder who’s using aircraft to bomb there? Turkey or Russia?
Must be pretty bad to bomb opposition forces in your own ally’s capital.
[Quote]http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11804525 ):
Jets believed to belong to the Russian or Syrian Air Forces pounded the Barzeh and Qaboun neighbourhoods in the northeast corner of the capital, levelling several buildings, and also wounded at least 12 people, the activist-run Barzeh Media Centre and Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
The side-by-side Barzeh, Qaboun, and Tishreen neighbourhoods form one of the last two footholds of the Syrian opposition inside the Damascus city limits.
The two neighbourhoods connect to a vast, opposition-held district in the suburbs of the capital through a network of smuggling tunnels, according to Syria researcher Aron Lund, in a report for the US-based Century Foundation policy institute.
Pro-government forces have so far failed to collapse rebel defences inside the Eastern Ghouta district, despite besieging them there since 2013.
Yeah, it is bad.
Especially when even a nation’s capital isn’t safe for civilians.
Most recent news has focused on Aleppo.