Story highlights More than 200 airstrikes hit Aleppo over the weekend

"Fear is clear in the eyes of anyone you see walking the streets of Aleppo," activist says

(CNN) Monther Etaky had gotten used to the sound of barrel bombs dropping on Aleppo. The 28-year-old graphic designer even managed to sleep normally, but in recent days that's changed.

"The new missiles are so loud and horrifying," the father of a two-month-old boy tells CNN.

"The city is now a ghost city," he says. "There are only ambulances and fire trucks around and over the past three days the shelling has been horrible.

A Syrian man carries a baby after removing him from the rubble of a destroyed building.

Over 200 air strikes hit the rebel-held city of Aleppo over the weekend, killing more than 100 people and injuring hundreds more, according to Ammar al-Selmo, the head of the Syria Civil Defense group, a volunteer emergency medical service.

On Sunday, top UN officials described the Syrianm regime's brutal offensive against areas of the besieged northern city of Aleppo as "barbaric."

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