(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aleppo's Sharia Council has suspended all Friday
Prayers in mosques and public squares amid high concerns of being hit by
regime warplanes, according to statement posted online.
About 250 civilians have been killed this week, nearly half of them around Aleppo. 50 people were killed late on Wednesday in devastating air strike hit al-Quds hospital where medics, sick children and Aleppo's last pediatrician passed away.
The military buildup in northern Syria, coupled with heavy fighting and mounting civilian casualties, spells the end of a cease-fire that for two months brought some relief to a war-weary country. The renewed violence is ushering in what could be an even more ruinous chapter in the 5-year-old conflict.
The situation in Aleppo is "catastrophic" after deadly overnight air strikes on a hospital in a rebel-held area of the Syrian city, and aid deliveries to millions of Syrians are in jeopardy, the United Nations said on Thursday.
"The stakes are so incredibly high because so many civilian lives are at stake, so many humanitarian health workers and relief workers are being bombed, killed, maimed at the moment that the whole lifeline to millions of people is now also at stake," Egeland told reporters in Geneva.
Egeland cited a "catastrophic deterioration in Aleppo over the last 24-48 hours, also in parts of the Homs area".
Aleppo is likely to be the focus of the next phase of the war, with both sides preparing for a major battle, according to senior rebel leaders and opposition activists who spokes to The Associated Press.
Regime forces have been mobilizing soldiers, equipment and ammunition in preparation for a military action in Aleppo, said Maj. Jamil Saleh, leader of Tajammu Alezzah, a Free Syrian Army faction that has received US-delivered TOW anti-tank missiles. (With agencies)
About 250 civilians have been killed this week, nearly half of them around Aleppo. 50 people were killed late on Wednesday in devastating air strike hit al-Quds hospital where medics, sick children and Aleppo's last pediatrician passed away.
The military buildup in northern Syria, coupled with heavy fighting and mounting civilian casualties, spells the end of a cease-fire that for two months brought some relief to a war-weary country. The renewed violence is ushering in what could be an even more ruinous chapter in the 5-year-old conflict.
The situation in Aleppo is "catastrophic" after deadly overnight air strikes on a hospital in a rebel-held area of the Syrian city, and aid deliveries to millions of Syrians are in jeopardy, the United Nations said on Thursday.
"The stakes are so incredibly high because so many civilian lives are at stake, so many humanitarian health workers and relief workers are being bombed, killed, maimed at the moment that the whole lifeline to millions of people is now also at stake," Egeland told reporters in Geneva.
Egeland cited a "catastrophic deterioration in Aleppo over the last 24-48 hours, also in parts of the Homs area".
Aleppo is likely to be the focus of the next phase of the war, with both sides preparing for a major battle, according to senior rebel leaders and opposition activists who spokes to The Associated Press.
Regime forces have been mobilizing soldiers, equipment and ammunition in preparation for a military action in Aleppo, said Maj. Jamil Saleh, leader of Tajammu Alezzah, a Free Syrian Army faction that has received US-delivered TOW anti-tank missiles. (With agencies)
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