Medical sources in Aleppo have accused the Syrian regime under President Bashar al-Assad of using its warplanes to pound the neighborhood of Sukkari “with barrel bombs ‘laden with poison gas'”. One 29-year-old patient died, according to SAMS.
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The use of chlorine in the attacks is yet to be verified.
Since the Ghouta attack, he estimated that chemical weapons had been used more than 100 times in the conflict, and their effectiveness when deployed by the regime against ISIS had encouraged the terror group to use them in turn.
A volunteer rescue group called the Syrian Civil Defense said that the people affected after the aerial chemical attack on a rebel-held neighborhood developed severe breathing problems. Doctors were still working to confirm the final death toll.
The committee’s leader, Riyad Hijab, a former Syrian prime minister who defected after a crackdown on protests that began in 2011, laid out the plan in London at a meeting of countries supporting the opposition.
He said Mr Assad was not in a position “of advantage or victory” despite recent advances by government forces.
Last month, opposition forces managed to break the crippling blockade on several districts of Aleppo.
Also Tuesday, the Turkish government said two Turkish soldiers were killed and five were injured in an attack by the Islamic State on two Turkish tanks in northern Syria.
Amid the crisis in embattled Aleppo, 15 doctors in the city sent a letter to President Obama earlier this month, sharply criticizing what they characterized as USA inaction. “The fact the worldwide community did nothing has encouraged him and encouraged Islamic State to do the same”.
However, SAMS said initial reports “recorded more than 150 casualties” and that victims had been taken to more than three different hospitals – including one of its own facilities where 36 people were treated.
Footage of the apparent chlorine gas attack on the Sukari district, near Aleppo’s main battlefield in the city’s southwest, showed crying children being doused with water and then lying on hospital beds and breathing through respirators.
The symptoms of the victims are the same as they have experienced in the past and this led them to believe that this is a chlorine gas attack.
“The message from Assad and Russian Federation is this: ‘You have to accept my conditions or die, ‘” he said. This area is full of civilians. “In government-held areas, indiscriminate ground shelling (by) armed groups.is also killing scores of civilians”, he added.
“The systematic use of chemical weapons in Syria with impunity for perpetrators has become the ‘new normal, ‘” the Syrian American Medial Society said in a statement Tuesday.
But Russia has blocked the use of those sanctions against the Syrian government, which denies it was responsible.
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However, the government has a history of being accused of similar attacks.
