“The Syrian people – whether in areas controlled by the regime or the opposition – have lost faith in both sides”, said Safwan Badawi in east Aleppo.
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Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, which has intervened militarily on behalf of Assad, said late Saturday it supported the deal.
The group vowed to repel any attack its members are subjected to during the truce.
The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has made no official comment on the agreement.
Geneva: The United State and Russian Federation has agreed a plan to impose a ceasefire in the Syrian civil war and lay the foundation of a peace process, US Secretary of State John Kerry said.
More than 100 people were reported killed in a series of bombing raids on rebel-held parts of Aleppo province in the north of the country, and in Idlib in the north-west, over the weekend.
Some 46 people are said to have been killed and at least 70 injured.
The U.K. based Observatory for Human Rights which tracks violence across Syria said jets believed to be either Syrian or Russian also hit rebel-held towns in the northern Aleppo countryside including Anadan and Hreitan along important insurgent supply routes. The UN has stopped its official casualty count in Syria, citing its inability to verify the figures it receives from various sources.
The agreement, by the powers that back opposing sides in the five-year-old war, promises a nationwide truce from sundown on Monday, improved access for humanitarian aid and joint military targeting of hardline Islamist groups.
The cease-fire, announced Saturday by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, calls for a halt to fighting between the U.S. -backed opposition and the Russian-allied Syrian government.
The Saturday report says that hostilities will stop in the northern city of Aleppo, the country’s largest, for “humanitarian reasons”. Under the agreement, Moscow will pressure the Syrian government to end its military campaign against US-backed rebels.
Russian Federation is a main backer of Assad’s government while the USA has been supporting rebel groups trying to remove him from power.
“The people can not accept half-solutions”, the group’s deputy leader Ali al-Omar said in the YouTube video to mark the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha today, when the truce is due to come into force.
The ministry says Turkey will deliver aid through the United Nations to the Syrian city of Aleppo, which has seen heavy fighting in recent months.
It added the agreement is “critical” for ending the fighting throughout Syria, and specifically Aleppo.
Turkey, which is a leading backer of the rebels fighting to overthrow Assad, and the European Union have welcomed the deal, but warned further action is needed.
Not protected by the cease-fire are the Islamic State and the Nusra Front, a terrorist group that was al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate until it recently announced separating from that group.
Both warring sides would pull back from the strategic Castello Road in Aleppo to create a demilitarized zone, while opposition and government groups would both have to provide safe and unhindered access via Ramouseh in the south of the city.
Previous peace efforts have crumbled within weeks, with the United States accusing Assad’s forces of attacking opposition groups and civilians.
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Russian Federation says it will continue strikes against the Islamic State group and al-Qaida-linked militants in Syria in coordination with the US military as a cease-fire brokered by Moscow and Washington goes into effect.
