Initial estimates indicate that at least 18 of the 31 trucks in the convoy were hit, as well as the Red Crescent warehouse in the area.
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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.
The attack came just hours after the government there declared a ceasefire was over.
At least 12 people from a human rights group were killed in the airstrike.
On Monday, a week after the cease-fire began, the Syrian army said the truce had expired, in a statement carried by state news agency SANA.
Syria’s military has declared a week-long ceasefire over and air raids were reported in Aleppo, even as officials from the United States and Russian Federation met behind closed doors in Geneva to try to extend the truce.
He said USA and Russian officials were meeting in Geneva to try to sort out aid deliveries to Aleppo and other besieged communities. USA officials said Syria and its ally, Russia, both knew where the convoy started and where it was going, and said the Obama administration considers Russia responsible for the Assad regime’s actions.
And that Russian Federation has not upheld its end of a ceasefire deal which would have seen Moscow and the United States set up a military coordination cell.
“But we’re waiting to get the full download from our team that is meeting now with the Russians in Geneva”.
The US said it’s prepared to extend the fractured truce, and Russian Federation – after blaming rebels for the violations – suggested it could still be salvaged. There was no immediate comment from Syria or its chief ally, Russia.
U.S. and Russian officers met Monday in Geneva, but the defense ministry in Moscow said it would be “pointless” to continue the truce in the face of rebel violations. The British-based Observatory said the trucks had made a routine aid delivery organised by an worldwide organisation to an area west of Aleppo city.
Aid was delivered to the besieged town of Talbiseh in Homs province on Monday, the Red Cross said, for the first time since July.
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the G20 summit in China, on September 5, 2016.
In the wake of the Syrian announcement, Kerry expressed annoyance at Damascus and Moscow’s handling of the cease-fire.
“It would be good if they didn’t talk first to the press but if they talked to the people who are actually negotiating this”, Kerry said.
The US and Russian Federation had planned to work together on an unprecedented joint operation to target Islamist rebels including Isil and formerly al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, if the ceasefire held for seven days.
The Syrian truce, which came into effect on September 12, did not apply to the terrorist groups of Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, the group formerly known as al-Nusra Front that changed its name in July.
The truce “was supposed to be a real chance to stop the bloodshed, but the armed terrorist groups flouted this agreement”, the statement said. “We will be consulting with our Russian counterparts to continue to urge them to use their influence on Assad to these ends”.
Activists and rebel groups also accuse the government of violating the cease-fire.
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British forces took part in a coalition air strike which the Syrian government claimed killed dozens of its troops, threatening the country’s fragile ceasefire, the Ministry of Defence has said.
