“The injured did not have any signs of injuries or blood”, he said, but instead were coughing loudly and had red, teary eyes.
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The year-long U.N. and OPCW inquiry – unanimously authorized by the U.N. Security Council – focused on nine attacks in seven areas of Syria.
At least 37 children and ten women were among those hospitalized, the Aleppo Free Doctors Committee said.
The bombs left people in need of treatment, the British-based monitor said, adding most were civilians.
Earlier last month, Russian Federation said Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki militant group, considered by Washington as “moderate opposition”, launched poisonous materials from Sukkari toward the eastern part of Aleppo, leaving seven people dead and over 20 others injured.
CNN can not confirm the authenticity of these reports.
Video released by the Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, shows men hosing down civilians, many of them children.
Assad’s use of chlorine as a weapon violates the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2235, which calls for worldwide action in the case of continued chemical weapons use by the Syrian dictator.
The world’s chemical weapons watchdog will investigate the suspected use of chlorine gas in an opposition area of the Syrian city of Aleppo, calling reports of the latest gas attack disturbing.
“It’s not almost as toxic as nerve agents like sarin”. The Syrian army could not be immediately reached for comment on the latest allegations. “The use of chemical weapons by anyone, anywhere and under any circumstances is unacceptable”.
There was no independent confirmation of who carried out the attack or that chlorine was used; the Assad government and its armed opponents have accused each other of using chlorine as a weapon of war. The UN investigation specified one example of when ISIS militants “had used mustard gas”, and two cases “where regime forces had used chlorine as a chemical weapon”.
“Barrel bombs – sometimes filled with chlorine – are the biggest killer of civilians in Syria today”.
“Nothing happened after Ghouta”. If there is any clearer violation of the chemical weapons treaty, I haven’t seen it. The Islamic State is not a player in the city.
The Assad regime has been repeatedly accused of using chlorine gas as a chemical weapon, and a United Nations investigation in August found that regime forces had twice carried out chlorine attacks.
The attack is the latest in a weeks-long effort by the Syrian government, backed by Russian Federation, to wrest control of rebel-held sections of Aleppo.
But Russia has blocked the use of those sanctions against the Syrian government, which denies it was responsible.
“There are more actors today in Syria with the availability of the substances and the ability to mix them and use them, if they so choose, as chemical weapons; and this is something very worrying”, said Virginia Gamba, head of the three-member UN Joint Investigative Mechanism that confirmed chemical weapons use in Syria.
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Aleppo province, which borders Turkey to the north, is a patchwork of territory held by competing forces in Syria’s war: rebels, the regime, Kurdish fighters, and jihadists.
