<p>In videos posted to a Twitter account run by their mother – an English teacher – on February 19 and 20, two girls in East Damascus, Syria, under heavy bombardment weeks, say that “nobody sleeps” because of the warplanes flying overhead.</p><p>Alaa, 8, and Noor, 10, live in a besieged area of East Ghouta, where food prices and rates of malnutrition, especially among children, has risen in recent months.</p><p>Multiple deadly airstrikes</a> had hit the area in the previous few days, and aircraft are audible flying overhead in several of these videos. Credit: Noor and Alaa via Storyful</p><br />
