Bella Naija: Activists claim 1,300 killed In government Rocket strike On Residential Area; Genocide In Syria

Activists claim 1,300 killed in government rocket strike on residential area.

They hit just before dawn as families lay sleeping

Syrian activists inspect the bodies of people they say were killed by nerve gas in Damascus

Genocide in Syria as 1,300 people including hundreds of women and children are wiped out in nerve gas attack say Syrian rebels as Hague warns use of chemical weapons would mark 'shocking escalation'

Chemical warheads hit suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar

A UN team is in Syria to probe chemical weapons use by President Assad

Many countries have called for an immediate investigation

French Foreign Minister has called the attack an 'unprecedented atrocity'

Hague says they should be given access to site to verify claims

Claims come as refugees flood into Iraqi Kurdistan

Syrian activists inspect the bodies of people they say were killed by nerve gas in Damascus

The dead bodies of Syrian children after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces

The world has looked on in horror today as graphic images emerged showing the aftermath of a dawn poison gas attack in the suburbs of Damascus that wiped out 1,300 people as they lay sleeping in their beds.

Activists say most of those killed were in their homes

Syrian activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of launching a nerve gas attack earlier today in what would be by far the worst reported use of poison gas in the two-year-old civil war.

Activists said rockets with chemical agents hit the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar before dawn.

Activists say most of those killed were in their homes

While these pictures of dead children are graphic, disturbing and undoubtedly the worst so far to have emerged from the conflict, MailOnline has made the decision to publish them in order to raise awareness of the plight of innocent people