An AFP correspondent in the rebel-held east of the city said several neighborhoods were hit, adding that people had been out to stock up on supplies after weeks of shortages caused by a punishing government siege.
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In a particularly shocking attack, a children’s hospital and an open market have been hit, killing 18 people – just another statistic in the country’s five-year civil war.
The UK-based watchdog group said 15 people were killed by Syrian airstrikes on the rebel-held districts of Fardus, Wajr al-Haj and others in the rebel-held areas in eastern Aleppo.
They rescue civilians from trapped buildings in opposition-controlled areas in Syria.
The attack came hours after the Russian military, which is backing the Bashar Assad regime, promised a daily three-hour ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid into besieged areas. Aid groups have said the month of July was one of the worst since the war began in 2011, with some 43 facilities in opposition areas partially or totally destroyed.
Despite calls for cease-fire and a promise from Russian Federation of a three-hour respite to allow in humanitarian aid, there has been no let up in the violence.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported said Saturday’s airstrikes on opposition areas in Aleppo city and surrounding countryside killed 40 civilians.
According to the Associated Press news agency, at least six people were killed in a strike hitting a market in the town of Urem al-Kubra. It was not clear what the target was, but videos shared by activists of the scene of the attack show the bodies of women and children strewn on the side of the road as frantic residents scramble to recover them.
‘Miracle’ rescue The local co-ordination committees said collective open-air prayers on Friday were called off in Idlib because of the intensity of the air strikes.
“Since the United Nations security council resolution to destroy chemical weapon stockpiles in Syria, there were more than 70 attacks with chemical agents by the Syrian regime but this time with chlorine gas”, said Zaher Sahloul from the Syrian American Medical Society, which has worked in Aleppo. A senior United Nations humanitarian official already has said that a 48-hour pause each week is needed in view of the logistics of providing aid.
Attacks on hospitals by Syrian government and Russian planes have been commonplace throughout the civil war and have brought strong condemnation from the worldwide community.
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Her third son, who is with her in Turkey, has avoided her all day because he didn’t know how to tell her, the cousin said.
