Syria death toll nears 500 as eastern Ghouta bombing continues
Source: The Guardian
Bombing raids have killed more Syrians in the besieged enclave of eastern Ghouta before a delayed UN vote on a ceasefire to allow medical and food aid to reach civilians.
Nearly a week into one of the most fierce assaults of Syria’s long civil war, nearly 500 people were dead and hundreds more injured, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Many of the bombing raids have targeted medical buildings, and doctors in the remaining facilities are struggling to keep up with the stream of severely injured patients.
The scale of the attacks from barrel bombs and other missiles was making it hard to find and count the dead, rescuers said.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/24/syria-death-toll-nears-500-as-eastern-ghouta-bombing-continues
From yesterday:
The UN security council failed to agree after a second day of intensive talks on a proposed 30-day ceasefire across Syria to allow for emergency humanitarian deliveries and medical evacuations.
Backroom negotiations continued throughout the day on Friday. One deadline passed after another, as other council members tried to persuade Russia to agree to a resolution. The talks at the UN headquarters in New York followed an appeal by French and German leaders to Vladimir Putin, asking for Russia to stop blocking the measure’s passage, pointing to the dire situation of the trapped civilian population in the rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus.
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The security council negotiations on Friday were focused on addressing Russian objections to the version put forward by Sweden and Kuwait.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/23/macron-merkel-urge-putin-back-ceasefire-syria-eastern-ghouta
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