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Syrian Barrage Buries Civilian Areas: 'What Have We Done To Deserve This?'

Attacks on rebel-held eastern Ghouta, outside Damascus, have killed over 250 civilians and show no signs of slowing. Aid groups say pro-regime forces are targeting residential buildings and hospitals.
Members of the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defense group, rescue an injured civilian after a pro-regime airstrike Tuesday in eastern Ghouta.

As evening settled over eastern Ghouta on Tuesday, the suburb just outside Damascus lay battered by 48 hours of sustained airstrikes. And the approaching night promised still more horror for one hospital.

By 5 p.m. local time, the Syrian American Medical Society says, barrel bombs had begun to fall in a downpour about the medical facility.

"The hospital's entry points,.

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