Damascus attack, the most terrible extermination in Syria

A man was seen running after an airstrike in the besieged Douma village in eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday (6/2/2018). | Bassam Khabieh / ANTARAFOTO / REUTERS

Tuesday (20/2/2018), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) issued a report on the war picture that occurred in the east of Ghouta, Damascus, Syria that increasingly raged in the last month.

The report, compiled by Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director in the Middle East and North Africa, contains only one opening sentence, "no words can represent justice for children killed, their mothers, their fathers, and people which they loved ".

Afterwards, the report is just a blank page.

At the end of the page, UNICEF gives a small note explaining the reasoning behind the blank report. "We no longer have words that can illustrate the barbaric behavior that makes children suffer," the report said.

Per day and one day before, the victim died from a missile raid sent down by Syrian government military forces - assisted by Russia - reached 250 people, more than 50 of them are children. While the injured have exceeded 2,500 people.

The report of the UK-based human rights organization, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, also said at least six hospitals in the area were destroyed by air and ground attacks launched.

That number is the biggest since a two-day chemical gun attack that left 1,200 people injured in 2013.

The situation became more brutal when the regional government of Damascus sent troops to confront Turkish troops entering the border and targeting the Kurds rebel group north of Syria.

Syrian military forces are unmoved against reports of casualties that have fallen from the attack. They remain insistent that his attacks target only the rebels, not the citizens.

The United Nations (UN) warned this attack had come out of its way. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, called what happened in East Ghouta as a form of genocide.

"International human rights law has made it clear that such incidents must be stopped, no more civilians who are victims of military or political missions," Zeid said in a statement quoted from Reuters.

Information compiled by his agency even mentioned total death toll has reached 346 people, with 878 others injured.

Most of the victims fell due to air strikes from government forces and allies that increased the intensity of their attacks since February 4, 2018.

Without such attacks, Zeid continued, many children and women have been caught in the fear of war in the surrounding region for years.

"How many more cruelties before the international community can come together to produce a vote that says" enough children to die, enough families to be destroyed, violent enough, "until the horrible extermination agenda ends?" specifically.

For months, the United Nations has requested the relocation of wounded people outside the conflict area, but the request has never received a serious response from the Syrian government.

Russia, on the other hand, rejected a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Syria.

Russia is considered one of the five major powers that can veto the UN resolution. The United States, Britain, and France have agreed on the resolution and requested that its ratification be enforced as soon as possible.

The draft resolution, also agreed upon by Kuwait and Sweden, contains a 30-day ceasefire order across the country that takes effect three days after being passed.

All medical and other assistance addressed to the 5.6 million residents of 1,244 communities across Syria, should be able to enter within 48 hours thereafter.

The number of casualties that have fallen in East Ghouta is due to the area being besieged by three major forces in Syria: Kuds rebel forces, the ISIS, and pro-government forces. No doubt, this area is called the enclave.

"There is no escape," said a local doctor who joined the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organization in the BBC alert.

Jeremy Bowen, a BBC editor of the Middle East, analyzed the change of pattern in the Syrian war seven years ago and today.

In the current pattern, it is very clear that President Bashir Assad's efforts to seal his victory in the last enclave of Damascus. If successful, then this would be his absolute victory.

On the other hand, Syria has also turned into an arena of war power and politics, which makes the threat of war null recede.

Far to the north of Syria, already adother great shadowing forces; Russia, Iran, Turkey, the United States, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and even British Special Forces.