It called the strike a “serious and blatant attack on Syria and its military”, and “firm proof of the US support of Daesh and other terrorist groups”, using the Arabic acronym for IS.
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The UN said it had received government approval to reach all the besieged and hard-to-reach areas where it sought to bring aid.
There has been no sign of compromise on the issue at the heart of the war: the future of Assad, who enjoys firm Iranian and Russian military backing that is buttressing his strongest military position in years.
The Syrian military blames the rebel groups of the truce failure.
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the trucks arrived in the afternoon.
A Red Crescent official in Syria confirmed the attack, but said no further information was available.
Syrian state media said there were 32 violations by rebels on Sunday alone. Airstrikes hit the convoy after warplanes resume their activities in the city.
David Swanson, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), earlier said a convoy on trucks was crossing into Orum al-Kubra with “wheat flour, health supplies and other emergency supplies” for 78,000 people in the area.
ICRC said in its statement on Tuesday that the dead include a member of the Syrian Red Crescent. “The perpetrators should know that they will one day be held accountable for violations of worldwide humanitarian and human rights law”.
The Russian military says that militants from al Qaeda’s branch in Syria are attacking government positions in Aleppo.
George Sabra, of the opposition High Negotiations Committee, told The Associated Press on Monday that the truce has been repeatedly violated and did not succeed in its main objective or opening roads for aid.
Relations were already strained between the United States, which backs some rebel groups in Syria, and Russian Federation, an ally of the Syrian government, after a USA coalition-led airstrike near Isis territory killed at least 62 government soldiers on Saturday.
Laerke, the United Nations aid coordinator, said the Syria government had granted needed authorizations in recent days to allow for aid convoys to proceed inside Syria.
While the U.S. said the strike was an accident, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said it was evidence the USA was ready to back even Islamic State to further its goal of regime change in Syria.
He said it’s “a very, very dark day. for humanitarians across the world”.
Syria’s almost week-old cease-fire was facing a crucial deadline on Monday as the Syrian army said the truce could expire later in the day after a particularly bloody weekend. -Russian brokered ceasefire had failed.
“Considering that the conditions of the ceasefire are not being respected by the rebels, we consider it pointless for the Syrian government forces to respect it unilaterally”, Lieutenant General Sergei Rudskoy said in a televised briefing.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the strike.
After months of negotiations, the United States and Russian Federation agreed on September 9 to call for a ceasefire, the delivery of aid and the joint targeting of Islamist rebels in Syria.
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The U.S. -Russian brokered Syrian ceasefire has been hanging by a thread nearly since it began and has been declared “clinically dead”, according to a Monday AP report about the perspectives of Syrian opposition leaders and President Bashar Assad’s government.
