ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS
Global outcry grows as it rains rockets in Syria
Douma, Syria — The Syrian regime rained rockets and bombs on Eastern Ghouta on Thursday, killing 19 civilians as international pressure mounted to stop the carnage in the rebel-held enclave. Calls for a humanitarian truce in one of the bloodiest episodes of Syria’s seven-year-old conflict went unheeded as the death toll for Damascus’s five-day blitz rose to 368. The UN chief, António Guterres, said the bloodshed wreaked by the aerial campaign had turned Eastern Ghouta into "hell on Earth", while German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for an end to the "massacre". Residents huddled in basements as government forces pounded the besieged enclave with rockets and bombs, turning towns into fields of ruins and even hitting hospitals. According to Doctors Without Borders, 13 of the facilities it supports in Eastern Ghouta were damaged or destroyed in three days, leaving remaining staff with very little to save the hundreds of wounded brought to them every day. In the hospital mortuary in D...
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