(Video)- Mohamed Zaka, 13-year-old, delivers his own analysis for the Syrian conflict with no fear, using his sense of humor when he talks about the deteriorating situation in rebel-held Aleppo.
Zaka with his playmates of rebel-held Aleppo keep their regular life despite daily barrage of barrel bombs. Everyday they come to the playground to have fun.
Zakar says Free Syria Army is defending us from the Bashar al-Assad. we are civilians no more, he added.
The long hour of electricity outage makes playgrounds and public parks the only happy land for children.
Rebel-held parts of Aleppo have faced regular air strikes by the Syrian military. A U.N. commission of enquiry on Syria has recorded the intense use of barrel bombs - improvised bombs dropped by helicopter - by government forces in the city.
10 days ago, 5 pupils and 4 teachers killed when barrel bomb hit their school in al-Ansari neighborhood of Aleppo.
Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmed Badr al-Din al-Hassoun, speaking on state TV, urged the complete destruction of insurgent-held areas from which shells were being fired.
"We inform the civilians there, be they supporters (of the insurgents), or not, to leave the area. Every area from which a shell is fired, should be completely destroyed," he said, according to Reuters.
More than 220,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war.
Air strikes from Syrian government warplanes have hit a school in the main northern city of Aleppo, killing at least five children and four other civilians, a monitoring group has said.
Zaman Al Wasl
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