[Published: Wednesday February 21 2018]
Syria eastern Ghouta bombing 'catastrophic'
Ghouta, Syria 21 Feb (ANA) - A doctor working in the Syrian rebel enclave of the Eastern Ghouta says the situation is "catastrophic" - and he believes the international community has abandoned the people living there.
"We don't have anything - no food, no medicine, no shelter," Dr Bassam told the BBC. "We don't have bread. We don't have anything." "Maybe every minute we have 10 or 20 air strikes," Dr Bassam said. Three days of bombing in the area reportedly killed at least 250 people.
The Syrian military says it is trying to liberate the area from terrorists - but it has also been accused of targeting civilians. "They targeted everything: shops, markets, hospitals, schools, mosques, everything," Dr Bassam said. "I will treat someone - and after a day or two they come again, injured again."
"Where is the international community, where is (the UN) Security Council... they abandoned us. They leave us to be killed," he said.(ANA)
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