***GRAPHIC IMAGES***<br/> <br />Rebel fighters in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta are at work, trying to break a blockade on the area by government forces, according to this latest video posted to the internet<br/> <br />Reuters cannot independently verify reports that 160 people were killed in fighting over the weekend.<br/> <br />No moment, not even burying the dead, is sacred.<br/> <br />Danger is the constant companion for everyone with stakes in the battle for Eastern Ghouta.<br/> <br />Air raids on Sunday were the military's response to rebel attacks on checkpoints.<br/> <br />Equally worrying to international aid workers here, is the blockade's impact on civilians.<br/> <br />They say that since food and weapon supplies were cut off to the area, many locals are effectively being starved out.
