Ibrahim Alhaj of the Syrian Civil Defense search and rescue outfit said hospitals and rescuers have documented the deaths of 43 people so far.
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The Observatory, said earlier in the day that 213 civilians have been killed by air strikes and shelling on opposition areas in and around Aleppo since a ceasefire collapsed.
The strong condemnation was made at an emergency meeting called to discuss worsening violence in Syria and as government planes bomb the city of Aleppo.
Najib Ansari said regime’s helicopters and warplanes, along with Russian jets, pounded al-Kallasa, Bustan al-Basha, Ard al Hamra, Tariq al-Bab, Mesir, Zinbdie, Salihiya and Ansar neighborhoods in Aleppo, all of which are now under siege by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
At least 19 children were among those killed in the assault, which has included missile strikes, barrel bomb attacks and artillery fire, the Syrian observatory said.
Britain, France and the United States had called for the urgent talks after days of intense diplomatic efforts to salvage a US-Russian ceasefire deal ended in failure at the weekend.
Efforts to revive the truce have floundered.
The Syrian army said in a statement that the rebels violated the week-long truce over 300 times, adding that the US -led coalition struck positions of the Syrian army during the truce in Deir al-Zour, killing 90 soldiers, which was deemed by Russian Federation as the biggest violation to the truce.
But Russia’s representative, Vitaly Churkin, instead blamed his American counterparts for the return to fighting and insisted Assad’s forces had shown “admirable restraint”.
She went on to say that the United States needed no reminders about the threat of terrorist groups.
Ms. Power said Russian Federation wasn’t engaged in “counterterrorism” but “barbarism” in Syria.
Warplanes have bombed a strategic camp on the northern edge of Aleppo, as Syrian government and rebel forces battle for control of the high ground.
The United States and Russian Federation, which brokered the ceasefire, have continued talks about how to revive it.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says Russian Federation should be investigated for war crimes following an attack on a Syrian aid convoy that claimed 20 lives.
The UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said the government was carrying out countless airstrikes on residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure in rebel-held parts of Aleppo – a potential war crime. -Russian talks on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly’s ministerial meeting failed to reinvigorate the September 9 cessation of hostilities, and the offensive has left two million people in Aleppo without water.
De Mistura called for 48-hour pauses in the fighting to let in humanitarian aid and evacuate the severely wounded.
The so-called military victory or solution in Syria is impossible, including in Aleppo, he said, warning that: If the Syrian Government is intent on retaking it completely, it is going to be a slow, grinding, street-by-street fight over the course of months if not years, whereby the ancient city will be completely destroyed.
Mr de Mistura appealed to the council to come up with a way to enforce a cessation of hostilities in Syria.
Any sign of me resigning would be a signal that the global community is abandoning the Syrians, and we will not abandon the Syrians, and neither will you.
Hospitals are overwhelmed with casualties and medical workers are expecting numerous wounded to die from a lack of treatment, according to Mohammad Zein Khandaqani, a member of the Medical Council, which oversees medical affairs in the city’s opposition quarters.
“I’ve never seen so many people dying in once place”, he said from a hospital in the city.
Also on Sunday, rebels shelled Masyaf, a government stronghold near the central city of Hama, for the second day in a row, according to the Observatory.
But a broad coalition of Syrian rebels denounced worldwide negotiations for peace as “meaningless”, earlier Sunday.
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The statement also said rebels could not accept “Russia as a sponsor because it was a partner with the regime in its crimes against our people”.
