“If they lose, it will be hard for them to launch a new assault to break the siege”, Abdel Rahman said.
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The United States and Russian Federation were in intensive discussions to “shore up” Syria’s collapsed nationwide truce and their military experts were still trying to agree a cooperation plan “that would unlock the entire solution”, Ramzy said.
Nour el-Deine Zengi didn’t immediately issue a response to the allegations.
A US-based rights groups claims Syrian government forces launched air strikes against six hospitals in the Aleppo area within a week in attacks that amounted to war crimes.
The source said Friday’s attack involved a high number of rebels, adding that the militants have used all kinds of weapons in the offensive.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based opposition monitor, said there were at least 40 air strikes on opposition areas, including on a camp for displaced people in Atareb, south-west of Aleppo.
SOHR said the hospital strike killed a pharmacist and put the facility out of service.
The observatory said at least 30 civilians had also been killed since Sunday in opposition bombardment of government-held southwestern districts of Aleppo.
Experts said any breakthrough in the talks may be due to a cold calculation on the part of Moscow that if civilians are evacuated from the area, pro-Assad forces can ramp up their bombing campaign in Aleppo and takeover the entire city – a strategic stronghold of the opposition.
Chvarkov said meanwhile that 372 Syrian civilians have used the “humanitarian corridors” set up by Russian Federation to flee rebel-held areas of Aleppo to government-controlled turf. Skeptics fear the Russians will take advantage of USA intelligence sharing to further support the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who Obama has said has lost legitimacy to lead.
A watchdog voiced concerns meanwhile over reports of a chlorine gas attack on Tuesday in nearby Saraqeb, close to where Russian Federation said one of its helicopters was shot down the day before, killing the five people on board.
The horrors of life in rebel-held eastern Aleppo are worsening, residents say, describing acute food shortages and increased aerial bombardment in the battle for control of the key Syria city.
Syrians gather at the crash site of a Russian helicopter, which was shot down by rebel forces on August 01, 2016.
Syrian doctor Ibrahim al-Assad said he treated 16 of the 29 cases brought to his hospital in the rebel-held part of Syria on Monday night.
Masri said he witnessed one man in the neighborhood die.
“If Russia is serious about averting a humanitarian disaster in Aleppo it should strongly support the UN’s call for an immediate weekly 48-hour humanitarian pause to ensure safe, unimpeded and immediate humanitarian access – both for aid to get into Aleppo and for civilians to leave voluntarily”.
“This is just one of many instances where hospitals have been targeted in Syria”.
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“These are imaginary corridors, false corridors only to show the global community that they are working on humanitarian issues with the Russian side”, he said.
