This is the amazing moment a baby girl was rescued from a huge pile of rubble in the bombarded Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta.
The debris and the rubble are so thick that it’s almost impossible to believe anybody can be extracted alive.
But a tweet posted by Syrian Defence Force rescuer Ismail Alabdullah shows the miraculous moment the baby is rescued.
Rescuers say the baby was completely submerged beneath the rubble
The baby is reported to be in a stable condition following the dramatic rescue
Much of Eastern Ghouta has been flattened by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad
The girl is reported to be in a stable condition apart from a few minor injuries.
An official with the International Committee for the Red Cross says aid workers who were recently on a humanitarian mission inside eastern Ghouta saw rescuers trying to pull corpses from the rubble of buildings.
Pawel Krzysiek, head of communications at ICRC Syria, says the situation in the opposition-held Damascus suburb is ‘desperate’.
Innocent: These children were among the victims – reported to be between 18 and 30 people – rushed to hospital with breathing difficulties after what is said to have been a chemical gas attack carried out by the Assad regime
The International Committee for the Red Cross confirmed that its joint convoy with the United Nations had to leave before offloading all its supplies on account of the deteriorating security situation on Monday
At least 68 civilians were killed in Eastern Ghouta on Monday, including 19 in Hamouriyah , British-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, although it is not known if any of the casualties were a result of the gas attack
War zone: Further air strikes cut short an international convoy’s aid mission in Eastern Ghouta, forcing aid workers to leave the area due to government shelling
Speaking on Tuesday, a day after a rare humanitarian mission to eastern Ghouta that was cut short because of the shelling, he says schools have stopped and some children have not seen daylight for 15 days. Many residents are hungry.
‘We left with heavy hearts,’ Krzysiek said in a video distributed by the ICRC.
He appealed for a sustainable solution to the security situation in eastern Ghouta so that more aid could be brought in.
The first aid delivery in weeks to reach the besieged eastern suburbs of Damascus was cut short after Syrian government forces began shelling the area while aid workers were still inside, a local council said.
Monday’s shipment was the first to enter eastern Ghouta amid weeks of a crippling siege and a government assault that has killed hundreds of civilians since February 18.
The ICRC confirmed that its joint convoy with the United Nations had to leave before offloading all its supplies on account of the deteriorating security situation.
Ingy Sedky, the ICRC spokeswoman in Syria, said most of the aid from a 46-truck convoy was delivered to the town of Douma in eastern Ghouta but the mission was cut short before the rest of the supplies could be unloaded.