Aid has been unable to enter the city ravaged by fighting between Russian-backed government forces loyal to President Bashar al Assad and rebel forces.
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The United States Holocaust Museum is calling for the worldwide community to protect civilians in the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo, which has become a battleground for rebels and the Assad regime.
The offer by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu followed a meeting between the Russian and Turkish leaders in which they agreed to mend ties.
Kafr Hamra is adjacent to the northern frontline in the deeply divided city of Aleppo, where government troops have sealed the main route into opposition areas, effectively trapping almost 300,000 residents.
The UN special envoy for Syria said a chlorine attack, if confirmed, would amount to a “war crime”.
“Today in the meeting the Russian delegation confirmed their willingness to sit down with us (Thursday and Friday) to try to agree on a workable humanitarian pause for us to go the Aleppo road way to help the poor people of east as well as in the west”, United Nations humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said.
Fighting between government forces and rebels in Aleppo has intensified in the past month, with both sides sending in reinforcements.
A rebel advance at the weekend broke through government territory south of the divided city, opening a new route for trucks carrying goods and fuel, though the road has not been fully secured.
Rudskoy said that “more than 1,000 were killed and about 2,000 wounded” in the rebel ranks over the past four days southwest of Aleppo.
The letter, written by 15 of the last doctors serving in eastern Aleppo, describes a dire humanitarian situation for people still living there.
“The children”, he said, “all of us were choking”.
“With heavy bombing continuing relentlessly in Aleppo especially, hospitals and clinics need to be treated as the sacred life-saving places they are, not as additional bombing targets”, said HRW’s Nadim Houry.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Thursday that reports of possible chemical weapons use in Syria “are of great concern”.
“We do not need tears or sympathy or even prayers: we desperately need a zone free from bombing over eastern Aleppo to stop the attacks, and global action to ensure Aleppo is never besieged again”, the doctors write.
Russian Federation said the raids destroyed a “chemical weapons factory” on Raqqa’s outskirts as well as a weapons storage facility and ISIL training camp to the north and south-east.
Last week, doctors in the neighbouring province of Idlib said they had treated more than two dozen patients following a suspected chlorine attack on the town of Saraqeb.
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The defence ministry said the raids also destroyed a weapons storage facility and a training camp for IS fighters to the north and southeast.
