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“Should I spread my family out through the house so if a barrel bomb hits we won’t all die together? Or should we all stay in the same room so we can die together? Should I sleep in the basement in case a barrel bomb hits, or on the top floor so I don’t suffocate if it turns out to contain poison gas?”
These are not rhetorical questions, nor an exaggeration designed to show you how difficult life is for us Syrians as a result of the bombardment we are subjected to on an almost daily basis. These are questions a Syrian mother asked my friend after a recent poison gas attack by the regime on the town of Sarmin.
