(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime continued Tuesday its deadly aerial bombing on the battleground city of Aleppo, killing at least 25 civilians in Bab al-Nairab neighborhood, Civil Defense said, as the Assad regime and its allies try to build on major gains in the city in recent days.
The strikes hit a crowd of displaced people were fleeing the stricken neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo, the rescuing group said.
Syrian Civil Defense on Monday declared Aleppo as a stricken city after fuel storage has completely run out and the volunteer rescuing group has lost all the vehicles and equipment needed to rescue civilians.
The directorate in a recorded statement clarified that Aleppo is under a suffocating blockade imposed by regime forces and allied militias. Aleppo is a shelter for 279000 people mostly women and children and the blockade has been imposed since 94 days.
The statement confirmed that fuel has run out completely and the White Helmets has lost all vehicles and equipment needed to rescue civilians.
The statement appealed to all humanitarian and relief organizations to intervene to stop the human disaster in besieged Aleppo.
Scott Craig, the spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Syria, told the BBC that there were 250,000 people in need of assistance in eastern Aleppo, 100,000 of them children. Food supplies are gone, he said.
"The situation on the ground in eastern Aleppo is almost beyond the imagination of those of us who are not there," Mr Craig said.
Meanwhile, Syrian rebels were fighting pro-regime militias on the southeastern edge of east Aleppo's opposition-held enclave on Tuesday, a rebel official said,
A major assault by government forces backed by allied militia has driven rebels from the northern part of their eastern Aleppo enclave and they now hold only two thirds of the area they had held for years in the city.
"There are no new advances (by government forces) but the bombardment and battles are still fierce, particularly in Aziza," an official in the Jabha Shamiya rebel group told Reuters. The official said there was a large mobilization of pro-government militias in the area on Monday night.
Jabha Shamiya is one of the main rebel groups in Aleppo.
The east of Aleppo has been held by rebel factions opposed to Bashar al-Assad for the past four years.
In the past year, Syrian troops have broken the deadlock with the help of Iranian-backed militias and Russian air strikes.
Russia says its air force is active in other parts of the country, but not operating over Aleppo. (With Agencies)
The strikes hit a crowd of displaced people were fleeing the stricken neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo, the rescuing group said.
Up to 20,000 people have fled regime offensive in
rebel-held eastern Aleppo in the last 48 hours, the International
Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday.
A
spokeswoman for the Geneva-based ICRC, Krista Armstrong, told AFP that
the 20,000 figure was an estimate and that the situation remained fluid,
stressing that "people are fleeing in different directions,"
desperately seeking refuge from the brutal fighting.
Syrian Civil Defense on Monday declared Aleppo as a stricken city after fuel storage has completely run out and the volunteer rescuing group has lost all the vehicles and equipment needed to rescue civilians.
The directorate in a recorded statement clarified that Aleppo is under a suffocating blockade imposed by regime forces and allied militias. Aleppo is a shelter for 279000 people mostly women and children and the blockade has been imposed since 94 days.
The statement confirmed that fuel has run out completely and the White Helmets has lost all vehicles and equipment needed to rescue civilians.
The statement appealed to all humanitarian and relief organizations to intervene to stop the human disaster in besieged Aleppo.
Scott Craig, the spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Syria, told the BBC that there were 250,000 people in need of assistance in eastern Aleppo, 100,000 of them children. Food supplies are gone, he said.
"The situation on the ground in eastern Aleppo is almost beyond the imagination of those of us who are not there," Mr Craig said.
Meanwhile, Syrian rebels were fighting pro-regime militias on the southeastern edge of east Aleppo's opposition-held enclave on Tuesday, a rebel official said,
A major assault by government forces backed by allied militia has driven rebels from the northern part of their eastern Aleppo enclave and they now hold only two thirds of the area they had held for years in the city.
"There are no new advances (by government forces) but the bombardment and battles are still fierce, particularly in Aziza," an official in the Jabha Shamiya rebel group told Reuters. The official said there was a large mobilization of pro-government militias in the area on Monday night.
Jabha Shamiya is one of the main rebel groups in Aleppo.
The east of Aleppo has been held by rebel factions opposed to Bashar al-Assad for the past four years.
In the past year, Syrian troops have broken the deadlock with the help of Iranian-backed militias and Russian air strikes.
Russia says its air force is active in other parts of the country, but not operating over Aleppo. (With Agencies)
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