At least four children were killed after Syrian regime shelling hit their school in a rebel-held town outside the capital Damascus on Tuesday, Syrian activists said.
The shelling killed five, including the four children and an adult, and left many others injured, the Ghouta Media Center and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The shell landed at the gate of a school in Jisreen, a town in the Eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus.
Residents of the Eastern Ghouta suburbs have been living under a suffocating regime blockade amid intense bombings.
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The violence and siege have continued even though the suburbs are part of a de-escalation agreement guaranteed by Syrian government backers Russia and Iran.
On Monday, the United Nations said it reached thousands of the suburbs residents for the first time in over a month.