At least 20 people have been killed on Friday in Syrian regime airstrikes on rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo, activists said.
Medics told Zaman al-Wasl more than 120 people have been killed in the fiercest aerial campaign on Aleppo in a week.
Rebel-held parts of Aleppo have faced regular air strikes by the Syrian military. A U.N. commission of enquiry on Syria has recorded the intense use of barrel bombs - improvised bombs dropped by helicopter - by government forces in the city.
Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmed Badr al-Din al-Hassoun, speaking on state TV, urged the complete destruction of insurgent-held areas from which shells were being fired.
"We inform the civilians there, be they supporters (of the insurgents), or not, to leave the area. Every area from which a shell is fired, should be completely destroyed," he said, according to Reuters.
More than 220,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war.
Zaman Al Wasl
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