The bombings in Syria continue despite yesterday the UN Security Council voted to adopt "without delay" a 30-day truce for humanitarian operations in areas severely affected by military operations against anti-Assad rebels.
According to reports from the rebels, at least one child died and thirteen other people were injured, with symptoms of asphyxiation, due to the air raid that hit Ghouta with a bomb containing gaseous chlorine, the vast area east of Damascus, where an air offensive by the Russian-backed Damascus regime has been underway for exactly a week, which has so far caused at least 520 deaths including 130 children.
The news was released by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights according to which the bomb containing chlorine in a gaseous state was dropped from a plane whose nationality has not been ascertained in the area of Al Shifunia.
Mohamed Alloush, head of the Sunni anti-Assad faction “Jaysh al-Islam” (Army of Islam) operating in Ghouta, posted on his Twitter account the photo of the child who, according to him, was killed by the chlorine bomb.
Image whose authenticity has not been verified by independent sources. In the shot you can see the lifeless body of the little one, with only the face visible and the rest of the body wrapped in a celestial veil with the inscription “25 February 2018, Al Shifunia. Killed by chlorine ".
On February 6, another possible case of the use of chlorine bombs is under investigation by the UN in Saraqueb, in the province of Idlib, the last one almost entirely left in the hands of jihadist groups, in Duma and Ghouta.
Meanwhile, the declaration of the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag arrives, announcing that the Turkish government "welcomes the resolution adopted by the UN Security Council in response to the worsening of the humanitarian situation in Syria, in particular in eastern Ghouta" but specifies that "In no way will this decision have any impact on the operation that Turkey is conducting" in Afrin.