(UN News Centre) – Expressing shock at the apparent collapse of a deal enabling evacuation of thousands of civilians from eastern Aleppo, the United Nations human right chief said today that the resumption of extremely heavy bombardment by Syrian Government forces and their allies on civilian-populated areas “is almost certainly a violation of international law and […]
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(UN News Centre) – Aleppo should represent the end of the quest for military victory, not the start of a broader military campaign in a country already ravaged beyond all recognition by five years of war, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told an emergency meeting of the Security Council today, calling on the 15-member body to […]
(The New York Times) – Hundreds of Syrian men who escaped rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo to reach government-controlled parts of the city are missing, United Nations officials said on Friday, adding that they had received reports of government reprisals, including numerous arrests and several cases of summary killings of suspected supporters of the opposition. At […]
(UN News Centre) – Discussions on how to assist civilians caught in the crossfire inside war-ravaged Aleppo continue to be difficult “because the Member States that are supposed to help us get access [are] poles apart on what is happening in Syria,” United Nations Senior Adviser Jan Egeland said today in Geneva. “We are not having […]
(UNICEF) – “I have just travelled back from Aleppo where the situation continues to plummet to even greater lows. When I was there nearly 100 mortars fell on west Aleppo in a couple of days. While at the same time, only a few hundred metres away we witnessed the unrelenting bombardment of the eastern side of […]
(Syrian American Medical Society) – After more than 100 days of siege, over 2,000 airstrikes, and the closure of all hospitals in eastern Aleppo, it is with a heavy heart that SAMS announces that our facilities and staff can no longer operate in the city. Our facilities have been seized by the government, leaving too […]
(MSF) – Al-Marj clinic is an MSF-supported medical site in East Ghouta, an area of besieged towns near Damascus. After suffering a series of tragedies, Dr. Abu Yasser*, a general practitioner and director of the medical department of the clinic, describes the newest challenge: no more ambulances. Yesterday, Dec. 5, a strike hit near our clinic and […]
(UN News Centre) – The United Nations Security Council today failed to adopt a resolution calling for a seven-day ceasefire in Aleppo that would allow humanitarian aid to reach people trapped in the war-ravaged Syrian city. The draft resolution proposed by Egypt, New Zealand and Spain was rejected because it received negative votes by permanent members […]
(Al Jazeera) – Wafa Mohammed Ali Zeidan, 35, was in the third-grade classroom when she heard the aeroplane’s first, terrifying rumble. Without a second thought, Zeidan, an English teacher, rushed to the door, panicking some of the girls in her class. Other pupils laughed, shouting: “Miss, are you scared of the aeroplane!” She went back to her […]
(Their World) – Underground schools in Aleppo have been suspended because of the deadly offensive by the Syrian regime to regain control of the city. The schools are run by an activist organisation called Kesh Malek, which said seven are currently closed due to heavy fighting. About 100,000 children are living in terror under siege as Aleppo suffers […]
