Rebels posted photo online showed 3 men slaughtering a lion in the besieged Ghouta suburbs, east Damascus; they try to 'make a virtue of necessity', activists said.
Zaman Alwasl source said the old lion came
from the embattled Douma Zoo in Damascus countryside.
Months ago, Islamic clerics cited Fatwa to
eat cat and donkey’s meat to face the systematic starvation by Basher al-Assad
on the besieged towns and cities in Syria.
Local and international aid workers say
Assad's forces appeared to be trying to starve out residents - indiscriminately
affecting civilians as much as rebel fighters.
Few days ago, fierce fighting to the east
of Damascus as Syrian rebels struggle to break a months-long blockade by forces
loyal to Assad, activists said.
It began on Friday when rebel units
attacked a string of military checkpoints encircling the opposition-held
suburbs in an area known as Eastern Ghouta, which has been under siege for more
than six months.
An
estimated 120,000 people have been killed and more than 2.5
million displaced by Syria's civil war, which erupted
after a fierce government crackdown on pro-democracy protests first held in
March 2011.
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