ICRC regional director for the Middle East, Robert Mardini, said he had no indication all sides were on board with the plan.
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He added that the credibility assessment into this airstrike continues.
The US military has launched a formal investigation into the bombing, but has not said how many deaths it is investigating, reports the Guardian.
He said that if the United Nations allows residents to travel safely to other opposition held-areas, this could reassure people that it is safe to leave, reducing casualty numbers. A lot of equipment, including incubators for newborns, was damaged.
USA -led airstrikes killed at least 28 civilians, including seven children, in Syria on Thursday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The monitoring group, which relies on a network of activists in Syria, said the hospital is no longer operational.
“This is unlike any other organization that we’ve fought before”, he said, “and with this sort of totalitarian attempt to control everything, it poses a significant threat not just to the people inside, but everybody that they want to expand out to, as well”.
The Observatory did not specify if the raid was carried out by the Syrian regime or Russian warplanes.
Garver said he’s not surprised at the amount of ISIL activity in the region.
A day after announcing a formal inquiry into what watchdogs call the United States’ worst civilian casualty incident in its war against the Islamic State militant group, the U.S. military said that more civilians may have been killed in another airstrike around the same Syrian city.
The airstrikes started around 3 a.m. and targeted the al-Tukhar village near Manbij, which is roughly a mile from an ISIS-held frontline position, according to Munther Salal, who handles public relations for the city council office in Manbij.
In two separate letters sent to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council President Koro Bessho on Friday, the Syrian Foreign Ministry strongly denounced the US-led coalitions “atrocities committed against civilians”, and called for bringing the perpetrators to justice, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported.
“Most of the casualties are children and elderly and we consider that a failure for the global coalition”, he further added.
The town lies 23 kilometres (14 miles) northwest of Manbij, a strategic waypoint between Turkey and the jihadist stronghold of Raqa.
The airstrikes targeted the town of Ghandur in the countryside of the town of Manbej, which has seen several strikes by the US -led anti-terror coalition.
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U.S. investigators are unlikely to visit the scene of the destruction, which has been the setting for a gruelling fight between Isis and the US’s Syrian Arab and Kurdish proxy forces since May 21st.
