A deal struck with Russian Federation for global inspectors to remove chemical weapons stockpiles from the country helped the Syrian government avoid any US action, but worldwide pressure has mounted again recently as evidence builds of its continuing use of the weapons.
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Rescue workers in the rebel-held area said army helicopters had dropped the chlorine in incendiary barrel bombs, an accusation the government has rejected.
Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Gaziantep on the Turkish border with Syria, said most victims were being treated with breathing difficulties.
A joint investigation by the United Nations and the chemical weapons watchdog last month found Syrian government troops were responsible for two toxic gas attacks and that Islamic State militants had used sulfur mustard gas, according to a report seen by Reuters.
That followed an attack the day before that left dozens choking in the rebel-held Sukkari district of Aleppo city, with the opposition accusing the regime of dropping chlorine gas.
Witnesses said chlorine barrel bombs were dropped by President Bashar Assad’s warplanes.
Russian and Iran-backed Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad is using warplanes to drop suspected chlorine-laden bombs on a nearby suburb, wounding at least 80 people, a lot of them women and children.
In a statement, the ministry said the attack showed the Syrian regime had disregarded the worldwide community once again. Several cases of chlorine gas bomb attacks also have been reported there. Video footage showed gasping children receiving treatment in a field hospital with oxygen masks clamped on their faces.
According to Ibrahem Alhaj, a member of the Syria Civil Defense first responders’ team, in an interview with the Associated Press (AP), said the mojority of people injured were women and children.
In response to the findings, U.S. National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said, “It is now impossible to deny that the Syrian regime has repeatedly used industrial chlorine as a weapon against its own people”.
The deal came after an August 2013 gas attack that killed hundreds of people in the Ghouta suburb of Damascus.
Fighting in the deeply contested city of Aleppo has not let up despite worldwide efforts to establish a cease-fire.
Ramousah, its surroundings, and the countryside between it and the village of Khan Touman seven km (four miles) to its southwest were the site of intense bombardment by Russian jets and attacks by Shi’ite militias in recent weeks, rebels say.
Russia, a close Syrian government ally, has blocked sanctions against President Bashar Assad’s government.
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“The U.S. has repeatedly condemned indiscriminate bombing of medical facilities by the Assad regime in Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria”.
