“The targeting of hospitals and clinics continues unabated, seriously jeopardizing the health and welfare of all citizens of Aleppo”, they said, adding that attacks on civilian infrastructure this week severely damaged the city’s electric and water infrastructure, leaving more than two million residents of Aleppo without electricity or access to the public water network.
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“The U.N.is extremely concerned that the consequences will be dire for millions of civilians if the electricity and water networks are not immediately repaired”, a joint statement from Yacoub El Hillo, U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, and Kevin Kennedy, U.N. regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, said.
On Tuesday, two United Nations aid officials, Yacoub El Hillo and Kevin Kennedy, say in a statement that water and electricity infrastructure has been damaged in the fighting.
“We are seriously concerned about the grave and unsafe situation facing hundreds of thousands of civilians in Aleppo, east and west and in surrounding villages, trapped by a conflict that has already cost them so much”, said Sajjad Malik, the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Syria.
U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura and U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien are to brief the Security Council on the deteriorating situation in Aleppo on Tuesday.
Child walks in the rubble of Aleppo.
Unicef warned that thousands of children were at risk from disease.
UNICEF and other aid agencies are bringing emergency drinking water by truck to an estimated 325,000 people in western Aleppo per day, he said.
United Nations urged all relevant parties operating in Aleppo to agree to a cessation of hostiles that allows for sustained humanitarian access.
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Up to 275,000 civilians in eastern Aleppo have been cut off from humanitarian aid since July, with shortages of basic commodities, including food, leading to rationing and soaring prices, UNHCR said in a statement.
