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Syria: Eastern Ghouta Assault Continues as Ceasefire Fails

HeadlineMar 01, 2018

In Syria, airstrikes and artillery fire continue to pound the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, as a daily 5-hour “humanitarian pause” brokered by Russia unraveled completely. U.N. Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator Mark Lowcock said Wednesday the deal failed to allow even a single vehicle to access the besieged region.

Mark Lowcock: So, if there’s been no humanitarian access since the resolution on Saturday, what has happened in the last few days? More bombing, more fighting, more death, more destruction, more maiming of women and children, more hunger, more misery—more, in other words, of the same.”

The fighting in Eastern Ghouta raged as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov denied reports that Syria’s military launched a chlorine gas attack on the suburb, calling it a “provocation” aimed at sabotaging the humanitarian pauses in fighting.

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