As the world focused on the devastating gas attack in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun this week, air raids were killing civilians in another part of the war-torn country.
Key points:
- Amal Kassir says she lost 10 relatives in bombing near Damascus
- Aunt, cousins, baby and unborn child among family members killed
- UN calls for humanitarian ceasefire in besieged eastern Ghouta
A Syrian-American poet has detailed how her Colorado-based family were informed that 10 of their relatives, including her father’s sister, were killed in air raids on the Ghouta region in Damascus on Tuesday, the same day as the chemical attack.
Addressing an audience at The Kennedy Centre in Washington DC, Amal Kassir said her family sat and watched a mobile phone as the updates came in and their worst fears were confirmed.
“We lost 10 members of our family yesterday, 10 people, all in just one bombing,” she said at the meeting of spoken-word and hip-hop artists from Syria and Iran.
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