The Slow, Violent Fall of Eastern Aleppo
For months, eastern Aleppo has been under intense and nearly constant attack by the Syrian and Russian air forces. Though many targets are surely military in nature, there is also a good deal of indiscriminate bombing and unlawful but willful targeting of civilian institutions, such as medical facilities. In addition, an economic blockade has been put in place that seems deliberately designed to hurt unarmed civilians.