“Our outrage at this attack is enormous. the convoy was the outcome of a long process of permission and preparations to assist isolated civilians”, de Mistura said, in a statement emailed to Reuters by his spokeswoman in Geneva.
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The Syrian Armed Forces General Command issued a statement Monday declaring that “the US-Russian ceasefire deal started since September 12th is over”.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed the attack on the convoy.
Earlier Saturday, Syria and Russian Federation had accused the USA -led coalition of striking a Syrian army base and blamed the raid for an Islamic State advance in the area.
“I am pained and disappointed that a United Nations convoy has yet to cross into Syria from Turkey, and safely reach eastern Aleppo, where up to 275,000 people remain trapped without food, water, proper shelter or medical care”, O’Brien said in a statement Monday. Initial estimates indicate that about 18 of the 31 trucks in the convoy were hit, as well as the Red Crescent warehouse in the area.
Syrian or Russian warplanes bombed the city of Aleppo and nearby villages on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, after the Syrian military ended a seven-day ceasefire.
Jan Egeland, head of the United Nations humanitarian task force for Syria, tweeted that there were “many killed and injured” in the strike.
U. N. Humanitarian Chief Stephen O’Brien called on “all parties to the conflict, once again, to take all necessary measures to protect humanitarian actors, civilians, and civilian infrastructure as required by global humanitarian law”.
“The armed forces backed by the USA have failed to establish a checkpoint in the eastern part of the Castello Road and have not transferred control over it to the Syrian Red Crescent Society”. A video of the attack showed huge balls of fire in a pitch black area, as ambulances arrived on the scene.
The ceasefire is the second negotiated by Washington and Moscow since Russian Federation joined the war. “So Russia’s client, Russia’s supported friend, is the single biggest blockade to the ability to move forward here”, Kerry said, adding that Russia should “stop the grandstanding, stop the showboating and get the humanitarian assistance going”.
It was unclear Monday evening whether the agreement – which has brought a brief respite to the war-torn country – would truly collapse on the ground.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry fired back in an interview with CNN, saying Russian Federation needs to stop Assad from attacking the opposition and blocking aid delivery.
“Let’s wait”, he said, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting.
Russian Federation and Syria said the strikes prove Washington and its allies are sympathetic to ISIS, which they say was able to briefly capture a Syrian position in the wake of the coalition attack.
Russia’s Defense Ministry on Monday said it would be “senseless” for the Syrian government to respect a ceasefire when US-backed rebels do not do the same.
Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov brokered the ceasefire that went into effect September 12.
Seven days after the cease-fire went into effect, aid convoys have not been able to reach besieged rebel-held neighborhoods of the northern city of Aleppo.
The U.S. military has said it may have unintentionally struck Syrian troops while carrying out a raid against the Islamic State group on Saturday.
But from the start, the truce has been beset by difficulties and mutual accusations of violations.
He added that the situation looks as if it were intentionally created by the United States to accuse Russian Federation and the Syrian government of disrupting the delivery of humanitarian assistance, “although Russian Federation has repeatedly called on all countries to join forces in conducting humanitarian operations in Syria and particularly Aleppo”. “We know that people will begin to starve, as they ration the products that they have in the city at the moment”.
As violations mount, a senior Syrian opposition official declared the cease-fire “clinically dead”, adding that government forces have violated the truce all over the country. A helicopter attack on the southern village of Dael killed at least eight people, activists said.
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Rudskoy said that the week-long truce had been violated 302 times and that 63 civilians had been killed.
