![Government forces have regularly carried out air strikes across the Ghouta region. [Msallam Abd Albaset/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cd9b94d03a9547b3a787f158b1eb5161_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Driven by fear for his family’s safety, a Syrian fighter constructs a bomb shelter in besieged Ghouta.
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Death rains down on Syria as ceasefire wobbles
At least 100 killed in air raids, shelling and rocket fire since Friday as government forces and rebels battle.
![Civil defence members evacuate a woman from a damaged building after air strikes in the rebel-held area of old Aleppo. [Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/9479182265624b3a8eb93e46111424ab_8.jpeg?resize=1170%2C780)
1 May 2016
At least 20 people have been killed in a Syrian government air strike on a hospital in the city of Aleppo.
The attack is the latest in an intensification of government assaults on the city, with at least 100 civilians killed in air strikes, shelling and rocket fire since Friday.
“In the last 48 hours, we have had an average of one Syrian killed every 25 minutes, one Syrian wounded every 13 minutes,” the United Nations special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said.
The renewed fighting has all but destroyed a delicate ceasefire that started at the end of February, with UN-led peace talks now in doubt.
De Mistura has urged the US and Russia to intervene to save them.
![A man walks as he holds the hand of boy injured in an air strike. [Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/60aff00c849645f49955f16851730058_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C780)
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![An injured girl is carried from a house destroyed in an air raid. [Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/0c6676f9b7c24d03b139acda2c92cdf1_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C780)
![Residents and civil defence members inspect a damaged building in the rebel-held Tariq al-Bab neighbourhood. [Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/60fee85b6907492abb55477f886af48b_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C780)
![Civil defence members rest amid rubble of damaged buildings. [Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/e4cedc473e674a679d9b44c0aab208f5_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C780)
![A fire engine is parked inside a rescue station after it was damaged during fighting. [Ammar Abdullah/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/4c2e0d5813ef4e40ab652d64dde9e60a_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C780)
![A civil defence station in the rebel-held town of Atareb lies in ruins. [Ammar Abdullah/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/81a8553eafc84208b482d9c3d3761cc2_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C780)
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