An airstrike in the rebel-held part of Syria’s contested city of Aleppo killed 10 civilians on Wednesday, activists said, an attack that hit in the same neighborhood where a suspected chlorine gas attack happened the day before. In videos distributed by the Syrian Civil Defense, a group also known as the “White Helmets,” children and others are shown rushed in the arms of rescuers to the Basel Aslan hospital.
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Syria’s government is once again facing accusations of using chemical weapons against civilians, with reports of a chlorine gas attack Tuesday in the divided city of Aleppo.
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Activists and medical workers say Syrian government and Russian jets are behind the attacks. They treated at least 70 people for breathing difficulties. Chlorine was not included in the deal, however, because it is considered a dual-use chemical, as it has applications other than chemical weaponry. If there is any clearer violation of the chemical weapons treaty, I haven’t seen it.
They surrounded the western Aleppo after cutting the global road to the city in 2014, a siege broken later by the Syrian army, with the help of Hezbollah. Moscow underscores the operation has not been sanctioned by the U.N. Security Council or the Syrian government.
A team of global inspectors determined in late August that the Syrian government and Islamic State militants were responsible for chemical attacks carried out in 2014 and 2015. ‘It’s chlorine, ‘ they were saying.
The Syria Observatory for Human Rights, the UK-based monitoring group, also reported casualties.
“He used chemical weapons, he didn’t fall and he’s still there”, he said, referring to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Islamic State is not a player in the city.
A year-long United Nations and OPCW inquiry into Syria, unanimously authorised by the 15-member Security Council, focused on nine gas attacks in seven areas and determined that Syrian government troops were responsible for two of them, in 2014 and 2015.
However, observers say the Syrian military’s campaign also aims to recapture areas in the northern and southern countryside of Aleppo in the face of Turkey’s perceived attempts to establish a safe zone in northern Syria. The UN investigation specified one example of when ISIS militants “had used mustard gas”, and two cases “where regime forces had used chlorine as a chemical weapon”.
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Aleppo has been one of the areas hardest hit by escalating violence in recent months after the collapse of a partial truce brokered by the United States and Russian Federation in February.
