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Leland Vittert reports from Jerusalem
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- Date Aug 16, 2012
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And Syrian family is racing to save the lives of their children after government airstrikes flattened a residential neighborhood.
In the rebel held city of his shots -- to warn you that this video is very graphic.
People were literally flew through the rubble.
And they were hoping to find their loved ones alive.
Human rights groups say that there is that this assault on -- he's killed at least forty people that it injured at least.
Hundred others.
They -- -- joins us now live in Jerusalem.
They aren't looking to us.
Martha it's unclear right now is we are trying to figure out is the Syrian air force targeting residential neighborhood.
As a -- warning to the civilians there who had been supporting.
The rebels in that area or were they trying to -- a opposition depot nearby either way the results are more -- -- in the -- Difficult at -- to watch parent.
Dig through the rubble trying to find their children many of the forty killed were indeed children of the hundreds wounded.
A lot went to a local hospital that hospital became overwhelmed they don't lock the doors.
And send people across the border to Turkey.
For medical care this really highlights.
A couple of issues one is that the Syrian rebels do not have the ability to combat president Asad air power and therefore are going to be unable at best.
To hold any real ground in terms of as this.
War goes forward number two there's a huge deficit of medical supplies -- on the ground in -- to deal with these kind of mass casualty events.
That happened.
During a civil war still despite his video despite this horrific news in the news that the Syrian -- government is now bombing civilian targets.
The Russian government said today at the United Nations that they were gonna -- of our president -- side.
Makes it unlikely -- is the ending -- -- no fly zone or something to prevent this kind of attack again back.
You and -- heart associations -- to watch it is so important that they be seen around the world so that we get a window into what is truly going on.
In Syria Leland thank you very much better and better Jerusalem.