“That’s our job”, Staffan de Mistura said on Friday.
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The United Nations, which is hoping to resume peace talks in August, has been circumspect since Russian Federation announced the humanitarian operation, saying the proposal for safe corridors out could be helpful, but only if it is combined with regular humanitarian access for those who do not want to leave.
Observatory’s chief Rami Adurrahman said another 13 people were killed in the strikes but that he could not say if they were Islamic State fighters or civilians.
De Mistura said he was awaiting clarification from Russian authorities on how the plan would work, while reiterating the United Nations position that no civilian should be forced to leave Aleppo.
He warned the clock is ticking before Aleppo becomes a major humanitarian besieged area.
The charity says the hospital is the biggest in the area, carrying out more than 300 deliveries a month.
People allowed to flee besieged areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo using new humanitarian corridors must be given protection, the Red Cross says. Shoigu mentioned three humanitarian corridors as well as food and first aid points outside the city.
That move, USA officials speaking on condition of anonymity said on Thursday, appeared to be an effort to pre-empt a U.S. demand that Russian Federation and Syria reopen a major road into the divided northern city before talks could begin on creating a joint intelligence center to coordinate air attacks against Islamic State.Then al Qaeda’s Syrian branch announced on Thursday it was terminating its relationship with the global network created by Osama bin Laden and changing its name to remove what it called a pretext by the United States and other countries to attack Syrians.
Pro-government forces with Russian backing have advanced in the three months since the cease-fire collapsed, and imposed a siege on the rebel-held sector of Aleppo since early July, when they closed the main road out of the city.
There were no reports of civilians using the corridors on Friday.
Fliers dropped over eastern Aleppo showed supposed corridors leading to government areas, but the media office for the opposition’s civil defense search and rescue group in east Aleppo said no safe corridors have been opened. A lot of equipment, including incubators for newborns, was damaged.
The other end of the passages, in regime-held territory, were open however, according to the monitor, which relies of a wide network of sources inside Syria for its information.
Two other patients suffered shrapnel wounds to their stomachs and many others were injured in the air strike on Kafr Takhareem, a rural part of rebel-controlled Idlib province.
Amnesty International said the aerial attack “appears to be part of a despicable pattern of unlawful attacks deliberately targeting medical facilities”, which can amount to a war crime.
Meanwhile, the USA military has announced on 27 July a formal enquiry into a 19 July airstrike in a village near Manbij, Northern Syria, that is being called by observers as the worst attack on civilians in its two year battle against Islamic State (Isis).
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said coalition airstrikes hit the IS-held village of Al-Ghandour near the Turkish border late Thursday.
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The global coalition had no immediate comment on the casualty figures.
