In rebel-held Eastern Ghouta a few hundred yards away, they hide in basements, awaiting the next air strike. In the Ein Terma neighbourhood, where 18,500 still live, satellite images show 71 per cent of buildings destroyed or damaged. “Eastern Ghouta is straight out of the Aleppo playbook,” one Western diplomat told The Daily Telegraph. “What we saw in Aleppo could pale in comparison to what’s to come in Eastern Ghouta,” he added. Bread in Eastern Ghouta costs nearly 22 times the amount it does in government-held Damascus.

Source: National Post March 03, 2018 21:56 UTC