Rasheed of Jaish al-Nasr and Ahmed Hamaher of the Nour al Din al-Zinki group, which is also fighting in Aleppo, said government forces had taken some positions but then been quickly forced back.
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“This attack in Aleppo is yet another flagrant violation of worldwide humanitarian law and signals a distressing pattern in the use of chemical weapons by regime forces”, said Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme.
Government and opposition forces have both denied using chemical weapons during the war.
The discussions are holding at a time when there are claims that suspected chlorine gas was dropped alongside barrel bombs on a neighbourhood in Aleppo on Wednesday.
De Mistura also said that senior military officials from Russian Federation and the U.S. are still working on restoring an overall ceasefire after five years of civil war that has killed a quarter of a million people and displaced 11-million.
Earlier the last doctors in the rebel-held east of the city appealed to US President Barack Obama to come to the aid of the 250,000 civilians there.
“Three hours a day to deliver aid is grossly inadequate given the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis in eastern Aleppo and the perilous and time-consuming nature of such deliveries”.
Responding to Russia’s offer, de Mistura said any pause in fighting was welcome but “three hours is not enough”.
“To meet that capacity of need, you need two lanes and you need to have about 48 hours to get sufficient trucks in”, Stephen O’Brien, UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, told reporters.
Footage obtained by the BBC shows people with breathing difficulties receiving treatment at a hospital.
There are also reports of a toxic gas attack on a rebel-held area.
Airstrikes in opposition areas of Syria’s northern Aleppo province struck a market, a hospital and a village on Friday, killing at least 18 people, including children and two hospital staffers, activists and rescue workers said.
Syrian’s state news agency said army troops seized territory south of Aleppo today, adding that rebel fire killed four civilians in a government-held district.
Aleppo, the second-largest city in Syria, where the civil war broke out in the county five years ago and remains caught in the battle for control between rebels and pro-government forces.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said attacks against civilians must stop.
Aleppo, which has been beset by constant violence since 2012, and the site of unspeakable suffering from air strikes, ground fighting, and even chemical weapons attacks, has become a humanitarian nightmare.
A senior Russian senator yesterday said Moscow was planning to expand its Hmeimim airbase on Syria’s coast into a permanent facility.
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The eastern part of Aleppo has been held by rebel groups since 2012.
