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he world has looked on in horror 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.

Syrian activists accuse President Bashar al-Assad's forces of launching the nerve gas attack 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.

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 in a war that shows no sign of ending.

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

The activists said at least 213 people, including women and children, were killedy in a nerve gas attack by President Bashar al-Assad's forces

Bodies of people, including children, activists say were killed by nerve gas

Innocent: Dead bodies of Syrian children after an alleged poisonous gas rocket attack fired by regime forces

The accounts could not be verified independently and were denied by Syrian state television, which said they were disseminated deliberately to distract a team of United Nations chemical weapons experts that arrived three days ago.

Syria's Information Minister called the activists' claim a 'disillusioned and fabricated one whose objective is to deviate and mislead' the UN mission.

Al Jazeera€™s Nisreen El-Shamayleh, reporting from neighbouring Jordan, said there were videos allegedly showing both children and adults in field hospitals, some of them suffocating, coughing and sweating.

man, affected by what activists say is nerve gas, is treated in the Damascus suburbs of Jesreen

A man is treated in hospital for the effects of chemical poisoning after the suspected Sarin attack

A boy who survived what activists say is a gas attack cries as he takes shelter inside a mosque in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus

An undignified end: This image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube allegedly shows Syrians covering a mass grave containing bodies of victims of the attack. The atrocity seems all too familiar to the children and young men standing around the grave site

A wounded Syrian girl waits for treatment. It has been reported that medical staff lack vital supplies needed to treat those affected

yria must allow the UN inspectors immediate access to investigate claims that chemical weapons were used in the attack, William Hague has demanded.

Many women and children were among the dead. The area reportedly bombed is residential

As the United Nations Security Council met to discuss reports of a deadly chemical weapon attack, the Foreign Secretary said that uncorroborated reports of toxic agents being used would mark a 'shocking escalation' if they are verified and warned that those who use them 'should be in no doubt that we will work in every way we can to hold them to account'.

Mr Hague said: 'I am deeply concerned by reports that hundreds of people, including children, have been killed in air strikes and a chemical weapons attack on rebel-held areas near Damascus.'

He added before a meeting with his French counterpart: 'I hope this will wake up some who have supported the Assad regime to realise its murderous and barbaric nature.'

The United Nations Security Council, failed to agree on on a firmly worded call on Syria during the two-hour closed-door meeting, sources said.

Argentina's UN Ambassador Maria Cristina Perceval, the current council president, said afterwards that the council backed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's determination for 'a thorough, impartial and prompt investigation' into the allegations.

Diplomats, who did not want to be named, told the Associated Press that Russia and China blocked a stronger press statement supported by Britain, France, the United States and others.

The team of UN inspectors was only recently granted access to Syria - and would need permission to extend its work beyond the sites where chemical weapons were previously alleged to have been used.

Syria is one of just a handful of countries that are not parties to the international treaty that bans chemical weapons, and Western nations believe it has caches of undeclared mustard gas, sarin and VX nerve agents.

Activists say most of those killed were in their homes

Heartbreak: Relatives and activists inspect the bodies of the dead

Assad's officials have said they would never use poison gas - if they had it - against Syrians. The United States and European allies believe Assad's forces used small amounts of sarin gas in attacks in the past, which Washington called a 'red line' that justified international military aid for the rebels.

Assad's government has responded in the past with accusations that it was the rebels that used chemical weapons, which the rebels deny.

Western countries say they do not believe the rebels have access to poison gas. Assad's main global ally Moscow says accusations on both sides must be investigated.

A Syrian family sits in a tent at Kawergost refugee camp in Iraq. Around 34,000 Syrians, the vast majority of them Kurds, have fled the region over a five days

Desperate: Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk

Around 30,000 Syrians, the vast majority of them Kurds, have fled the region over a five-day stretch and crossed the border to the self-ruled Kurdish region of northern Iraq

Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby yesterday called for United Nations inspectors to immediately investigate reports of the chemical attack.

'The secretary general said in a statement he was surprised this deplorable crime would happen during the visit of a team of international investigators with the United Nations who are already tasked with investigating chemical weapons use,' the official news agency MENA said.

'He called on the inspectors to head immediately to the eastern Ghouta (suburb of Damascus) to determine what happened.'

The timing and location of the reported chemical weapons use - just three days after the team of U.N. chemical experts checked in to a Damascus hotel a few miles to the east at the start of their mission - was surprising.

'Logically, it would make little sense for the Syrian government to employ chemical agents at such a time, particularly given the relatively close proximity of the targeted towns (to the U.N. team),' said Charles Lister, analysts at IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre.

'Nonetheless, the Ghouta region (where the attacks were reported) is well known for its opposition leanings.

Authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan have imposed a quota in an effort to limit the flood of refugees

Jabhat al-Nusra has had a long-time presence there and the region has borne the brunt of sustained military pressure for months now,' he said, referring to a hardline Sunni Islamist rebel group allied to al Qaeda.

'While it is clearly impossible to confirm the chemical weapons claim, it is clear from videos uploaded by reliable accounts that a large number of people have died.'

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said dozens of people were killed, including children, in fierce bombardment. It said Mouadamiya, southwest of the capital, came under the heaviest attack since the start of the two-year conflict.

The Observatory called on the U.N. experts and international organisations to visit the affected areas to ensure aid could be delivered and to 'launch an investigation to determine who was responsible for the bombardment and hold them to account'.

Exodus: The Syrians are fleeing into the Duhok region in north-west Iraq

Meanwhile, about 35,000 refugees, believed to be mainly Syrian Kurds, have entered Iraq since last Thursday, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said.

UNHCR officials told an internal U.N. meeting in Baghdad on Monday that up to 100,000 Syrian refugees could be expected to flee to Iraq within the next month, if the current pace continued, U.N. sources said.

Fleeing bombardments and sectarian tensions in parts of northern Syria including Aleppo and Efrin, they arrive exhausted, with many children dehydrated from walking in the scorching heat.