"Assad is trying to kill everyone that survived the chemical attack"

Mrs Fadl was sleeping when the chemical bombs hit. She worried first for her son, whom she affectionately calls Najoudy. “Where is he, where is he?” she remembers crying out. “He was right next to me but I couldn’t see him, I couldn’t see anything, I started to feel terrible because the air was so heavy.

“My husband said to get outside so I carried Najoudy out to the street. Then a lorry driver stopped us and told us he had many dead people in the back. We looked in and we saw our relatives, all dead. My aunt, my uncle Kareem, my friends, my neighbours, my god,” she says. “I saw them, they were all dead.”

When she heard the news of the strike on Friday she said she was “happy” for a second, but “then we became worried as we knew Assad would look for revenge on us. Now it is like he is trying to kill everyone that survived the chemical attack,” she said.