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SYRIA'S evil dictator Bashar al-Assad has been accused of using the banned and lethal substance Napalm on his own people - creating conditions described as "hell on earth".

The White Helmets volunteers recorded the moment missiles, which they believed were filled with the highly flammable liquid, blitzed the rebel-held town of Hamouria within the besieged eastern Ghouta region.

 This is the harrowing moment a bomb believed to be filled with the banned substance Napalm rained down in Hamouria, Syria
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This is the harrowing moment a bomb believed to be filled with the banned substance Napalm rained down in Hamouria, SyriaCredit: TWITTER/WHITE HELMETS
 Rescuers of The White Helmets believe Assad claimed the bomb was unleashed earlier today
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Rescuers of The White Helmets believe Assad claimed the bomb was unleashed earlier todayCredit: TWITTER/WHITE HELMETS

For six straight days, warplanes have pounded the highly populated area near Damascus, leaving more than 400 dead.

Today, rescuers posted a harrowing video on Twitter, likening the atmosphere within the neighbourhood to a "burning incinerator".

Hours later, they retweeted a video recorded hours before the alleged Napalm attack, in which a little girl can be heard crying in shock after losing her mum.

The caption reads: "Most of the video is in blackness but the little girl's voice at the end tells all.

 Moments after posting the video claimed to be Napalm, the rescuers showed how smoke filled the skies of eastern Ghouta
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Moments after posting the video claimed to be Napalm, the rescuers showed how smoke filled the skies of eastern GhoutaCredit: TWITTER/THE WHITE HELMETS
 The alleged Napalm bombs come hours after Assad's forces launched several airstrikes
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The alleged Napalm bombs come hours after Assad's forces launched several airstrikesCredit: AFP or licensors

"No Arabic is necessary to understand what she is saying to the #WhiteHelmet who rescued her.

"What is happening? Where is my mother? Where are we going? The cry of a child in shock. #Douma #Ghouta."

As The White Helmets captured the severity of the brutal bomb attacks, a distressing video emerged from the rebel-held area, showing a heartbroken man collecting his son's corpse from a truck.

The distraught man cries bitterly, as he wanders aimlessly through the streets littered with other corpses cradling his child.

 A rescue worker passes a child's corpse to a tearful dad
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A rescue worker passes a child's corpse to a tearful dadCredit: REUTERS
 A distressed Syrian dad cradles the body of his dead child after the bloodiest air strike in years
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A distressed Syrian dad cradles the body of his dead child after the bloodiest air strike in yearsCredit: REUTERS

The man walks past bodies of other corpses, slaughtered in the bloodiest airstrikes the area has seen in the last three years, as he struggles to make sense of what has happened.

Onlookers claimed the deadly strikes were "most intense" on Friday morning, hours before the UN was set to vote on a proposed calling for a temporary ceasefire.

The EU has now also called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Ghouta, for urgent humanitarian access.

 The body of a Syrian baby lies wrapped in a shroud on the floor of a makeshift clinic
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The body of a Syrian baby lies wrapped in a shroud on the floor of a makeshift clinic
 Heartbreaking images of volunteers rescuing children have almost become symbolic of the brutal Syria airstrikes
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Heartbreaking images of volunteers rescuing children have almost become symbolic of the brutal Syria airstrikes

 

The UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons banned the use of Napalm against civilians in 1980, after it became a harrowing symbol of the Vietnam War.

In a strongly worded statement expressing its anger at the bombing of eastern Ghouta, the bloc said: "The European Union is running out of words to describe the horror being experienced by the people of eastern Ghouta.

"Unhindered humanitarian access and the protection of civilians is a moral duty and a matter of urgency... the fighting must stop now."

The UN has called for an immediate ceasefire to prevent a "massacre" in the area, where 400,000 people have been under siege since 2013.

Several previous ceasefire attempts in Syria have quickly unravelled throughout the multi-sided conflict, which has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced 11 million people.


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