One Syrian family lost 21 in suspected chemical attack The tally for the Wakeds was 12 women and girls, and nine men and boys killed, according to the family. Fifteen others were sickened by gas. Five remain in critical condition in Syrian hospitals, they said. Among the dead, the oldest was 68, the youngest was 10 or 11. Just how many were killed or injured in the attack in Zamalka and surrounding towns on Wednesday remains unverified, just as who and what was responsible remains unknown. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's office said Sunday that U.N. experts would inspect the site Monday, as lawmakers in Washington called for a U.S. military response. Many Syrian activists put the death toll at well over 1,000. A list of the dead contains 374 documented with names and images. Activists said they just couldn't keep up with the pace of the deaths and, as many arrived in nightwear, there was no way of identifying them. The group Doctors Without Borders said medics in the three hospitals it supports in the area reported that 355 died, after 3,600 people were admitted suffering from neurotoxic symptoms within the space of three hours on Wednesday morning. Jamal Waked said that because the bodies were quickly shrouded, as religious custom demands, and buried within a few hours, amidst chaos and fear of more attacks, Waked elders in Syria worry that some of the victims could have been comatose, but still alive, when they were put in the ground. "Now they will not bury anyone before a doctor examines them, just to make sure," said Waked, who was gathered with relatives and friends for a three-day period of mourning in Nazareth. Sitting on plastic chairs beneath a blue tarp, smoking and drinking coffee, family members wondered exactly what happened. Waked family members in Israel said they were told their relatives died from chemical weapons and not conventional arms, as their bodies were intact, but they did not have evidence to support that claim. The Waked clan was originally settled in the Palestinian village of Al-Mujaydil south of Nazareth, which now lies abandoned and partly absorbed by the Israeli town called Migdal Ha'Emeq. In the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, many of the Wakeds, now numbering several thousand, escaped to Syria, where they consider themselves Palestinian refugees to this day, a part of Syrian society, but still separate. Zamalka is now virtually deserted, activists say, as families who had braved the air raids and artillery in the past months fled in terror after Wednesday's suspected chemical weapons attack. Over the past 2½ years, many of its residents had fled the town, which even before Wednesday had already suffered for its support of the Syrian revolution. Videos posted online show its battle-scarred streets. Residents say it was 2:20 a.m. when the first rocket hit Zamalka, and five more followed. "They made a white-blue explosion," said Zidan al-Sabah, an activist who lives about a half-mile away. It was not long before the field hospitals were crammed with victims vomiting and struggling to breathe, he said. In the days since, activists have gone from house to house in deathly quiet streets, discovering entire families, like the Wakeds, wiped out. "Many made the mistake of going to the basements," he said, adding that those who did increased their chances of succumbing to the toxic gases, which being heavier than air sank lower. Unidentified, the victims rushed out of their neighborhoods to receive treatment. Activists say it is impossible to give a breakdown of how many people died in what area, but that it was Zamalka that is suspected of paying the highest price. We have lost loved ones, we lost our children and our grandfathers. We cannot comfort them. We cannot see them. We cannot assure they receive a proper burial. We are not talking about one or two, which would be a tragedy, but 21 people! That is not a family, that is a neighborhood," Ahmed Mustafa Waked said. Morris reported from Beirut. Sufian Taha in Nazareth contributed to this report.