This figure does not include neighborhoods in the countryside.
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The civil defence organisation known as the White Helmets was overwhelmed by the scale of the destruction, particularly after several of its bases were damaged by bombing on Friday. One of those hurt is in critical condition. Activists reported dozens of airstrikes on Friday alone. “Most of the victims are under the rubble because more than half the civil defence has been forced out of service”.
“In many areas, the wounded and sick have nowhere to go at all – they are simply left to die”, said Carlos Francisco, Medecins Sans Frontieres head of mission in Syria. “Since midnight until now, there are eight dead people and 10 injured as a result of the airstrikes”.
The Turkey-based Syrian National Coalition, one of Syria’s main opposition groups, condemned the attacks on Aleppo, calling it “a insane crime led by the Assad regime and Russian occupation”.
Residents in the besieged city say they’ve never experienced anything like the current wave of bombings.
Parts of the city have been under a near-continuous siege since July.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday’s death toll of 32 is expected to rise because people remain trapped under rubble.
There were conflicting reports as of late Saturday about the success of the counterattack.
Syrian and Russian Federation deny claims that their forces had been involved.
A seven-day truce brokered by the USA and Russian Federation collapsed on Monday.
“We can not stand the silence of the global community”, he said.
Medical sources say 91 people were killed in Friday’s bombardment. “The collective failure of the global community should haunt every member of this Council”.
Lavrov called for an investigation of the incident, repeating that Russian or Syrian air forces were not involved in the attack.
“Now it is essential to prevent a disruption of these agreements”, Lavrov said.
Rooting out terrorism groups in Syria, he said, “is absolutely important in order to have truces and reconciliation”.
The Foreign Secretary said exerting pressure on the Syrian government’s key supporter Vladimir Putin could be key -but he feared there was little “political appetite” to take a decisive grip on the crisis.
Since a cease-fire brokered by the USA and Russian Federation collapsed last week, the Syrian government has made no secret of its intention to use military force to crush its enemies.
The regime announced the offensive on state media Thursday. The pumping station supplying rebel-held parts of Aleppo was damaged on Thursday and subsequent strikes had made repairs impossible, Mr Dwyer said.
“What happened after September 12, when the document entered into force?”
UNICEF, the United Nations children’s charity, said a pumping station providing water for rebel-held eastern Aleppo was destroyed by bombing, and the rebels had responded by shutting down a station supplying the rest of the city, leaving 2 million people without access to clean water.
“Violence is preventing fix teams from reaching the station”, Hanaa Singer, the UNICEF representative in Syria, said.
Damage to the water pumping system is particularly unsafe for the estimated 250,000 people still living in the eastern part of the city, because the shallow wells there only provide highly contaminated water.
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Both Washington and Moscow say the cease-fire accord Kerry and Lavrov announced two weeks ago in Geneva offers the only realistic chance for progress toward ending a conflict that has claimed more than 400,000 lives since the spring of 2011.
