Russian Federation said on Thursday it would stop attacks on Aleppo for 48 hours next week to allow delivery of humanitarian aid, indicating it would also prevent the Syrian government from bombing there, provided the United States could guarantee a similar pause by the “so-called moderate opposition”.
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Chief Executive with Trocaire Eamon Meehan has said it’s important we take time out today to remember them: “More than 90% of humanitarian workers actually come from those countries where those disasters are happening”. Pictures of a dazed, bloodied child pulled from the rubble after an air raid stirred global outrage on Thursday.
The upsurge in fighting and airstrikes in and around the city, split between government-held west and rebel-held eastern sectors, has prompted growing global concern, galvanised by pictures on Thursday of a dazed, bloodied child.
Hours after de Mistura’s call, the Russian Defence Ministry displayed willingness to cooperate, noting that they expect the same “from United States in “moderate opposition” zones”.
He says Russian Federation was read.
However, Turkey and Iran have large Kurdish communities and both appear to be concerned about Syria’s Kurds gaining more areas under their control on the border with Turkey.
Russian Federation said on Thursday it was ready to halt fire for 48-hour periods in Aleppo from next week, following United Nations calls to extend humanitarian pauses to deliver aid.
“And in a month not one single humanitarian convoy has been able to reach the besieged areas”.
A senior rebel commander said there was a “positive atmosphere” surrounding talk of a ceasefire.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said air raids continued in the area around the corridor, known as Ramouseh, on Friday.
Worldwide concern has mounted over the fate of up to two million civilians in the city amid an intensification of fighting, with the World Food Programme warning on Friday that the situation was “inhumane, awful, disgusting, nightmarish”. Khalil added that government forces will be held accountable for these “brutal, blatant attacks against our people”.
In turn, he asked the governments of Russian Federation, the United States and all countries that have influence on the Syrian conflict to make an effort to reach a truce in the war zones.
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The image showing a traumatised Omran Daqneesh, five, sitting in an ambulance with dust and blood all over him, became viral on social media.
