Nick Schifrin:

Among the ruined remains of Eastern Ghouta, there are few places left to hide.

After seven years, the U.N. says there are no longer any words that can do justice to the destruction, the desperation, the children whose entire lives have been spent at war, the children who will die having known nothing but war.

It was seven years ago that Eastern Ghouta was a green suburb of Damascus. It was one of the first places to rise up against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Today, the U.N. calls it hell on earth, and the potential site of crimes against humanity, 400,000 civilians without food, water, or electricity.

In the last two weeks, more than 650 civilians have been killed, and thousands injured, by Russian and Syrian planes, and a ground assault the Syrian military says is advancing and targeting rebel groups fighting the regime.