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Despite Ceasefire, 10 More People Killed in Rebel Damascus Suburbs

Monday, February 26, 2018 5:24 am | < 1 Minute Read

This photo released on Feb. 24 by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows members of the group and civilians gathering to help survivors from a street attacked by airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

A Syrian monitoring group and paramedics say that despite the U.N. ceasefire resolution, new bombardment of the rebel-held suburbs east of Damascus killed 10 people as airstrikes and bombing resumed.

Syrian state media broadcast live footage showing the Harasta suburb being pounded by airstrikes and artillery.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense, also known as White Helmets, said nine died in an airstrike shortly after midnight on the suburb of Douma and one person was killed in Harasta on Monday morning.

The new deaths bring to 24 the two-day death toll in eastern Ghouta, on the edge of Damascus, despite U.N. Security Council’s unanimous approval on Saturday of a resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire across Syria. On Sunday, 14 people were killed.

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