The Syrian government dropped barrel bombs containing what appears to be chlorine on a residential neighborhood in Aleppo Tuesday.
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At least 10 civilians were killed in the IS-held town of Taduf, near Al-Bab, in air strikes by unidentified aircraft on Wednesday, the Observatory said.
“When I arrived at the market, I started seeing the injured people and noticed that something was unusual”, he said. Officials said her house was directly hit by one of the barrel bombs.
It opened a corridor into the rebel-held parts of Aleppo that are home to at least 250,000 people and had been under siege for weeks, while forcing the government to access its own areas in the city by a longer, more precarious route.
The report added that their clothes smelled of chlorine, and said that ten of the patients -including a pregnant woman – were in a critical care unit. “Most of those injured where women and children”, he said.”It is a crowded neighborhood”.
According to a reporter for CNN, Clarissa Ward, “There are no winners in Aleppo”.
The Syrian Civil Defense and the Syrian American Medical Society posted videos and photos on social media showing children doused in water using oxygen masks to breathe.
The video also shows a boy being washed with a hose by rescuers after being pulled from the rubble as the sirens of ambulances wail around him.
CNN notes that chlorine was not part of that deal because it has other, legitimate uses as an industrial chemical. “We are also now investigating new allegations of chemical weapons use, particularly pertaining to (an) August incident”, said Vitit Muntarbhorn, of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria. Our unarmed and neutral rescue workers have saved more than 60,000 people from the attacks in Syria, but there are many we can not reach.
Katoub’s organization “has counted 167 chemical weapon attacks in the course of Syria’s civil war”, Alice reports.
But Russia has blocked the use of those sanctions against the Syrian government, which denies it was responsible.
The global community took no military action in response, although a multinational deal was struck under which the majority of Syria’s chemical arsenal was removed. In extremely high doses, chlorine can be fatal.
“The bombing caused great destruction, as you can see, and the barrels contained chlorine”. Over 1,490 people have been killed in the chemical attacks.
“Nothing happened after Ghouta”.
He said Mr Assad was not in a position “of advantage or victory” despite recent advances by government forces. “The fact the worldwide community did nothing has encouraged him and encouraged Islamic State to do the same”.
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The group accused the government of another chlorine attack in August.
