The strikes hit near the hospitals, it said.
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“Syrian government forces are repeating the awful siege tactics in densely populated eastern Aleppo that devastated civilian populations in other towns in Syria”, said the deputy Middle East director of Human Rights Watch Nadim Houry on Friday.
The IDA statement said its specialized hospital for children wouldn’t reopen until it can be assured of its protection.
Separately, at least 42 civilians were killed on Monday in Syrian government air strikes on al-Atareb, a city in the Aleppo province.
The east of the city has been under siege for the past two weeks, since government forces severed the only remaining supply route into rebel-held districts.
The Independent Doctor’s Association (IDA), a group of Syrian doctors that support clinics in Aleppo, allege that a two-day-old baby died after a government strike on a children’s hospital.
“Five medical facilities were hit [overnight] and are out of service right now”, Ammar Salmo, spokesman for a volunteer rescue group known as the White Helmets told Al Jazeera.
The army said it will keep providing Aleppo residents with basic necessities, but called all those living in rebel-held parts of the city to kick out “mercenaries and foreign fighters”.
A World Health Organization report this year documented the killings of more than 1,000 people in attacks around the world aimed at health-care providers.
The activist al-Halaby said that later Sunday an air raid struck a store house that has some 10,000 food baskets that were to be used in case people become in need for food.
This must include, he said, a restoration and consolidation of the cessation of hostilities; all necessary action from the parties and their supporters to ensure safe, sustained, unhindered and unconditional access; and an immediate end to the sieges which still collectively punish hundreds of thousands of civilians mercilessly.
In recent months, several hospitals have been damaged and medical staff killed in the densely populated eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo.
Syria’s conflict erupted in March 2011 with anti-government protests across the country but has since morphed into a complex multi-front war.
The conflict has killed more than 280,000 people in the last five years.
Repeated attempts to broker a political settlement built on a teetering ceasefire have failed.
The statement on SANA, quoting an unidentified foreign ministry official, said Syria would be “ready to coordinate air operations against terrorism as part of the agreement between Russian Federation and the United States”.
It said at least one child was killed and the toll was expected to rise because many people were still missing beneath the rubble.
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Secretary of State John Kerry said this month that Washington and Damascus ally Moscow had reached a common understanding on the steps needed to get Syria’s peace process back on track.
