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The Assad regime and the rebels are using people’s hunger to advance their own interests.
Several people also suffered symptoms consistent with chlorine gas exposure, killing one child, after an explosion.
The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution demanding a 30-day truce to allow aid deliveries and medical evacuations.
At least 462 people have been killed, including at least 99 children, and many hundreds injured.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
More than 300 people have been killed in the rural eastern Ghouta district on the outskirts of Damascus since Sunday night, and many hundreds have been wounded.
More than 300 have been killed since Sunday.
“No words will do justice to the children killed, their mothers, their fathers and their loved ones," UNICEF said.
Almost 200 have died since Sunday.
More than a dozen children are among the dead.
Only four people have been transported to Damascus hospitals so far. Others have died waiting.