(Zaman Al Wasl)- Red color is sweeping the Syrian Facebook as the stricken city of Aleppo is being under brutal ground and aerial campaign by regime forces and Russian jets.
Social media activists have called on all Facebookers to change their profile photo into red in solidarity with Aleppo. They have also launched campaign on Twitter to ring the alarm bells over the ongoing massacres in war-ravaged city of Aleppo, saying" #AleppoIsBurning,"
Air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo and shelling of government-held areas of the city resumed on Friday, after a brief dawn lull following seven days of violence, a war monitor, a civil defense worker and Syrian state media said.
At least one child died and five people were injured in air strikes on Friday on rebel-held areas, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The strikes come on the same day as Russian state media said a "regime of silence" agreement in Syria sponsored by Russia and the United States will apply for 24 hours in Damascus and the surrounding area and 72 hours in Latakia.
Bebars Mishal, a civil defense chief working in rebel-held areas of Aleppo told Reuters there were a number of air attacks this morning, many of them around mosques in rebel-held areas. Mishal said one hit a clinic in Aleppo's Al-Marja district.
About 250 civilians have been killed this week, nearly half of them around Aleppo. 30 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.
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.
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". (With agencies)
Social media activists have called on all Facebookers to change their profile photo into red in solidarity with Aleppo. They have also launched campaign on Twitter to ring the alarm bells over the ongoing massacres in war-ravaged city of Aleppo, saying" #AleppoIsBurning,"
Air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo and shelling of government-held areas of the city resumed on Friday, after a brief dawn lull following seven days of violence, a war monitor, a civil defense worker and Syrian state media said.
At least one child died and five people were injured in air strikes on Friday on rebel-held areas, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The strikes come on the same day as Russian state media said a "regime of silence" agreement in Syria sponsored by Russia and the United States will apply for 24 hours in Damascus and the surrounding area and 72 hours in Latakia.
Bebars Mishal, a civil defense chief working in rebel-held areas of Aleppo told Reuters there were a number of air attacks this morning, many of them around mosques in rebel-held areas. Mishal said one hit a clinic in Aleppo's Al-Marja district.
About 250 civilians have been killed this week, nearly half of them around Aleppo. 30 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.
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.
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". (With agencies)
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