It repeats in every war. Like Aleppo etc

Imagine a seiged city.

Then there was no rules. No Geneva convention. No UN. Example Julius Caesar impaled an entire city that resisted his seige. When it surrendered he executed them. Some of the nobility and women and children, starving, were sent out from the city in its pleas for survival. So he raped and burnt and impaled the women, he mounted the children on spikes burning them, he also chopped up their bodies catapulting them into the city to force surrender. They surrendered and so he crucified them. He then took the king Brennus to every other city in its kingdom, parading him naked to force its surrender which he brutally enslaved often as galley slaves, and whores.

Then Kings and Queens and nobility impaled and tortured to death and mounted on spikes. Losing armies crucified or beheaded. Prior to an invasion the starvation of a city under seige, catapults pounding the walls, reigning fire, the wells and waterways poisoned. People eating bird shit, or cannibalising each other. Disease spreading. Traitors within. Your enemy doesn't want your city and burns it all to the ground after looting it.