Ghouta Massacre, Syria in February 2018 [GRAPHIC PHOTOS]

[Meatpie]

Almost 300 civilians have been killed in dozens of airstrikes and shelling by forces loyal to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in eastern Ghouta over two days of extreme violence, which has led to warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe that could eclipse past atrocities in the seven-year war.


The surge in the killing in the besieged region came amid reports of an impending regime incursion into the area outside Damascus, which is home to 400,000 civilians. More than 700 people have been killed in the last three months, according to local counts, not including the deaths in the last week.

<aside class="element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded" data-component="rich-link" data-link-name="rich-link-2 | 1"> Amnesty International said “flagrant war crimes” were being committed in eastern Ghouta on an “epic scale."

Below is a gallery contating graphic images from the Ghouta Massacre, Syria in February 2018.






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[alexonedeath]

I am blessed never to have had to live in the midst of fighting, like so many people in the world do. It must be an inconceivable hell. The young children (if they live) might be handling it better than the adults, since they were born into the war and never knew anything else.

 

[MarchWhitfield]

so much death in that part of the world, with no end in sight