In the week since the United Nation’s ceasefire resolution, not only had the violence failed to stop, it has actually escalated, according to the United Nations Regional Coordinator for the Syria crisis.
This video captures the moment when an air strike hits a building just feet from members of Syria’s White Helmets.
Thick black smoke rises from the building and a man can be seen fleeing with a child in his arms.
Thousands of residents have now fled their homes in eastern Ghouta and headed westward where the fighting is less severe, civilians inside the suburb told CNN on Sunday.