French foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he was “concerned by reports of a new chemical attack. that is said to have claimed four lives people and left dozens injured”.
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In a war already marked by humanitarian crises, the United Nations says the current fighting threatens to replicate deprivation recently suffered by those in rebel-held eastern districts of Aleppo among civilians living in the government-held west. But by midday Friday, she must have figured it out, he said.
Also briefing the press, Mr.de Mistura’s Special Advisor, Jan Egeland said: “The stakes can not be higher in the coming days, because, really, millions of Syrian civilians are now in a seeming free fall, from Aleppo to Eastern Ghouta, from Fua and Kefraya to Zabadani and Madaya, and to the whole people of Darayya, who are still waiting the second half of the first convoy that they promised them”. “If it did take place, it is a war crime and as such it would require everyone … to address it immediately”, he said. For five years, the world has stood by and remarked how “complicated” Syria is, while doing little to protect us.
Syrians in the region have been reusing disposable medical supplies, like syringes, and people have expressed concerns that ambulances and hospital generators will be unable to run as fuel levels continue to degrade.
“We are 15 of the last doctors serving the remaining 300,000 citizens of eastern Aleppo”, a group of doctors claiming to be among the last in the city wrote in a letter to United States president Barack Obama on Thursday. Recent offers of evacuation from the regime and Russian Federation have sounded like thinly-veiled threats to residents – flee now or face annihilation.
Worldwide medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, which supports a number of medical facilities in the opposition held sector, said the casualty toll had risen sharply.
They wrote that they often have to choose which adult or child will live and which will die.
“It was only found two weeks ago”, the cousin said.
Despite the horror, we choose to be here.
“We need a target timing, and the target timing is still towards the end of August”, he added.
Our dedication to this pledge is absolute.
“As you can see we are removing the remains of the barrel that is full of poisoned materials so that children do not play with it”. So we rushed back – some on foot because the roads were too unsafe. We have a duty to remain and help.
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It was not clear who was responsible. Death has seemed increasingly inescapable. In response, government-loyal ground troops backed by air support from Russian Federation have been mounting a counterattack there in what appears to be a crucial escalation in the five-year-old Syrian conflict. “We announced to all the priests, since yesterday, and we’ve also told the people, that we want to fast and pray the next 72 hours so that the will for peace always prevails and so that it wins over the will for war”, Father Ibrahim, a pastor in Aleppo, told Vatican Radio Aug. 9. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can.
