REUTERS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS VIDEO WHICH WAS OBTAINED FROM SOCIAL MEDIA<br/> <br />Activists say this amateur video shows rebels in a firefight with government forces in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday.<br/> <br />The video was uploaded to a social media website and Reuters cannot independently verify the content.<br/> <br />Fighting is raging throughout Aleppo, a key battleground in Syria's 17-month conflict, which has pitted rebels against forces loyal to president Bashar al-Assad.<br/> <br />Meanwhile, another amateur video shows a fire-damaged hospital in the capital, Damascus.<br/> <br />Activists say the facility was attacked by government forces.<br/> <br />They also claim that at least four civilians - some with their hands bound - were executed in another part of the capital.<br/> <br />The U.N. says 1,600 people were killed in Syria last week, the highest weekly figure since violence erupted last year.
