(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime and backed militias launched missile attack on the besieged town of Daraya near Damascus, field sources said Saturday.
Residents of Daraya said regime plans for major attack on the town after pounding the the southern neighborhood by surface to-surface early Saturday.
On Thursday, regime mortars hit crowds were waiting humanitarian medicine aid in Daraya west of Damascus, killing at least two people, local activists said Thursday after aid convoy denied entry.
Father and his son have been killed as dozen more have been wounded, activists reported.
The aid convoy was refused entry to Daraya, the Red Cross and United Nations said, blocking what would have been the first supplies to its residents for more than three years.
The organizations said their joint delivery was stopped at the last regime checkpoint on the way into Daraya, on the outskirts of Damascus.
The United Nations said this month that Syria's government was refusing U.N. demands to deliver aid to hundreds of thousands of people.
"Despite having obtained prior clearance by all parties that it could proceed," the convoy was not allowed through, a statement from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and U.N. said.
"Daraya has been the site of relentless fighting ... and we know the situation there is desperate", said Yacoub El Hillo, U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria.
"Civilians trapped here are in need of humanitarian aid. We were hoping that today's delivery of life-saving assistance would have been a first step and lead to more aid being allowed in."
The town borders a military airport used by Russian planes which have been conducting air strikes since September to support President Bashar al-Assad in the five-year-old civil war.
U.N. experts estimate around 4,000 civilians are trapped there, senior U.N. official Jan Egeland told reporters in Geneva on Thursday, before news emerged of the blocked convoy.
Residents of Daraya said regime plans for major attack on the town after pounding the the southern neighborhood by surface to-surface early Saturday.
On Thursday, regime mortars hit crowds were waiting humanitarian medicine aid in Daraya west of Damascus, killing at least two people, local activists said Thursday after aid convoy denied entry.
Father and his son have been killed as dozen more have been wounded, activists reported.
The aid convoy was refused entry to Daraya, the Red Cross and United Nations said, blocking what would have been the first supplies to its residents for more than three years.
The organizations said their joint delivery was stopped at the last regime checkpoint on the way into Daraya, on the outskirts of Damascus.
The United Nations said this month that Syria's government was refusing U.N. demands to deliver aid to hundreds of thousands of people.
"Despite having obtained prior clearance by all parties that it could proceed," the convoy was not allowed through, a statement from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and U.N. said.
"Daraya has been the site of relentless fighting ... and we know the situation there is desperate", said Yacoub El Hillo, U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria.
"Civilians trapped here are in need of humanitarian aid. We were hoping that today's delivery of life-saving assistance would have been a first step and lead to more aid being allowed in."
The town borders a military airport used by Russian planes which have been conducting air strikes since September to support President Bashar al-Assad in the five-year-old civil war.
U.N. experts estimate around 4,000 civilians are trapped there, senior U.N. official Jan Egeland told reporters in Geneva on Thursday, before news emerged of the blocked convoy.
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