Syria’s military announced the end to the truce earlier Monday, accusing rebels of more than 300 violations and failing to “commit to a single element” of the US-Russia deal.
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A UN and Syrian Arab Red Crescent convoy was struck while delivering aid in Syria’s Aleppo governorate, UN Secretary-General’s deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq told Sputnik on Monday.
The deadly incident came just hours after Syria’s military said the U.S. -Russia brokered cease-fire had failed and airstrikes resumed.
It was not clear who was behind the attack late on Monday, which sent a red fireball into the sky over a rural area in western Aleppo province.
The United Nations is a group of 193 countries, including the UK, who work together to try to keep peace in the world.
Mr de Mistura’s humanitarian adviser, Jan Egeland, said the convoy had been “bombarded” while offloading at warehouses.
The attacks break important rules called International Law, because people not involved in the fighting were killed.
SARC’s director in Urem al-Kubra, Omar Barakat, was among the dead, Mardini said.
The ceasefire deal had three key components: fighting between government and rebel forces across Syria would halt, although strikes on Islamic State and other militants could continue.
He had earlier described the truce as “holding but fragile”.
Russian Federation and the United States agreed a deal during talks in Geneva earlier this month to pressure both Moscow’s ally Assad and US-backed rebels to obey a ceasefire.
Asked about the army’s statement, Kerry told reporters in NY that the seven days of calm and aid deliveries envisaged in the truce had not yet taken place.
Despite Syria and Russia’s egregious violations of the ceasefire, the State Department is still trying to find a way to maintain the tenuous reduction in violence.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said air strikes had hit rebel-held areas in Aleppo and villages to the west.
Also Monday, the opposition reported 254 violations by government forces and their allies since the truce started on September 12.
At the ISSG meeting, officials also discussed the importance of continuing to pressure the Islamic State and the Levant Conquest Front, formerly known as the Al-Nusra Front, terrorist groups.
World Food Programme spokeswoman Bettina Luescher said in a statement that the United Nations food agency had airdropped aid to besieged neighborhoods in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour earlier Tuesday “as part of the planned schedule of deliveries”. An estimated 250,000 to 275,000 people live in areas held by anti-government rebels that have been a focus of intense airstrikes and artillery bombardment. At least 22 civilians were killed in government bombings over the last week, according to the Observatory, an opposition activist group.
“The regime helicopter target this place with four barrels”, said the civil defense worker.
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“Present in this hall today are representatives of governments that have ignored, facilitated, funded, participated in or even planned and carried out atrocities inflicted by all sides of the Syria conflict against Syrian civilians”, Ban said.
