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The impact of the attack blew away her windows and doors, she said. The main entrance to her building was damaged as well. She now uses a couch to keep it closed because it no longer locks.

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PHOTO: A Syrian man runs between destroyed buildings which were attacked during airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Feb. 22, 2018.
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“They are still shelling us,” Samira, who asked that her real name be withheld out of security concerns, told ABC News. “When the attacks intensify I hide in the living room, which is the safest place in my apartment because there are no windows.”

There is just one shelter in her neighborhood, she said, and it only has room for a small number of people – so she hides from the bombardment at home.

An estimated 400,000 people are trapped in Eastern Ghouta with little access to food, water, fuel, electricity and health care. More than 20 hospitals there have been attacked since Sunday night, according to the Syrian American Medical Society, which supports hospitals in Eastern Ghouta. Doctors in the enclave say they don’t have trauma drugs and surgical equipment, making it difficult, sometimes impossible, to save lives.

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PHOTO: Syrians gather between destroyed buildings after an attack of airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria on Feb. 22, 2018.
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“We are currently only treating people with injuries from the shelling and most of them are children,” Amani Ballour, a pediatrician and hospital manager in Eastern Ghouta, told ABC News. “Sick people can’t make it to the hospital because of the intensity of the strikes.” She said her hospital received some 200 wounded and killed on Wednesday.

“I don’t know how to describe what I feel when I see children in pieces and dead bodies,” she said “We don’t know what to do.”

The United Nations Security Council met Thursday to discuss the situation in Eastern Ghouta at the request of Russia, president Bashar al-Assad’s main ally.

At the emergency meeting, Staffan de Mistura, the U.N. Special Envoy for Syria, called for a ceasefire.

“There is a need for avoiding a massacre, because we will be judged by history,” he said.

Russia’s U.N. ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, called the resolution unrealistic and proposed amendments.

The Syrian government and Russia say their military offensive against eastern Ghouta is necessary to overthrow rebels who have been firing mortars on Damascus. The recent surge in violence in Eastern Ghouta, which has been besieged by the Syrian government since 2013, is part of president Bashar al-Assad’s campaign to seize Syria’s last remaining opposition-held territories.

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