Chlorine gas is not listed as a banned chemical weapon in the worldwide Chemical Weapons Convention that Syria agreed to join under the agreement, but its use as a military weapon is banned under global law. They said they treated at least 70 people for breathing difficulties.
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The US-based Syrian American Medical Society, which supports one of three hospitals in Aleppo where the victims were taken, said one person was killed by the barrel bombs dropped during the alleged chemical attack on the Sukkari neighborhood Tuesday.
At least 10 civilians were killed in the IS-held town of Taduf, near Al-Bab, in air strikes by unidentified aircraft on Wednesday, the Observatory said. “Wherever the regime is driven out of an area, it ends up destroying it”, he said in a text to The Associated Press.
“Units of our armed forces in cooperation with allied forces control the gas works, the tannery, the slaughterhouse, the post office and the military checkpoint area of Ramousah in Aleppo”, a Syrian military source had said earlier. She had been in intensive care since the attack, which doctors said they believed had struck her family’s house directly, delivering a deadly dose of the gas.
According to CNN, the aerial chlorine gas bomb attack was also reported by “the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights”.
The long-suffering northern city is one of the focal points of the grinding Syrian civil war, now in its sixth year, with rebels and pro-government forces trading indiscriminate fire across populated neighborhoods.
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Assad’s opposition groups, backed by the United States, proposed a political transition plan this week that would require Assad to hand over power to a unity government within six months. That averted a USA military strike in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta.
In response to the findings, U.S. National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said, “It is now impossible to deny that the Syrian regime has repeatedly used industrial chlorine as a weapon against its own people”.
In a two-page summary of a classified report submitted to the United Nations, the OPCW said most of the 122 samples that it collected at multiple sites in Syria “indicate potentially undeclared chemical weapons-related activities”.
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Ibrahem Alhaj, a member of the Syria Civil Defence first responders’ team, said he got to the scene in the crowded al-Sukkari neighbourhood shortly after a helicopter dropped barrels containing what he said were four chlorine cylinders.
