Footage of the apparent chlorine gas attack on the Sukari district, near Aleppo’s main battlefield in the city’s southwest, showed crying children being doused with water and then lying on hospital beds and breathing through respirators.
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One of the victims, a 13-year-old girl named Hajer Kyali, died Wednesday afternoon.
While intense fighting rages between the government and rebel forces, the world’s chemical weapons watchdog has announced it will launch an investigation into the suspected use of chlorine gas in an opposition area of Aleppo. All three incidents occurred after a USA -led 2013 deal that supposedly stripped the Syrian regime of its chemical arsenal.
He said the Syrian conflict has seen a resurgence in chemical weapons, which had not been widely used since the Iran-Iraq War and Saddam Hussein’s campaign against the Kurds in the late 1980s.
Medical workers in the city have said the opposition-controlled neighborhood was hit with chlorine gas on Tuesday, though the report could not be independently verified.
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. CNN notes that chlorine was not part of that deal because it has other, legitimate uses as an industrial chemical. “For them, the UN Security Council must follow through on its demand to stop the barrel bombs, by introducing a “no-fly zone” if necessary”, Raed Saleh said in a statement on their website.
“You don’t even need a very big explosive – just enough to split the barrel”.
Usually dropped from Syrian army helicopters, the low-priced munitions are believed to have killed thousands of people since the Syria conflict began more than five years ago.
“Nothing happened after Ghouta”.
The reporter mentioned that the Syrian Air Force destroyed positions and supply routes of the terrorist organizations in the area of the storehouses of Khan Touman and in al-Hikma School, Maarata and to the south of Tallet Bazo, killing scores of terrorists and injuring others.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested that Turkey could take part in a future operation to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State group militants.
The ministry accused the rebels and their regional and worldwide backers of carrying out gas attacks against the Syrian civilians.
But Russia has blocked the use of those sanctions against the Syrian government, which denies it was responsible.
In late August, according to CNN, an investigation by the United Nations stated that both the Syrian national air force and ISIS militants have used chemical weapons in Syria.
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Aleppo has been one of the areas hardest hit by escalating violence in recent months after a partial truce brokered by the United States and Russian Federation in February crumbled.
