Also, the Syrian Civil Defense, a rescue workers’ organization operates in opposition-held areas stated that Assad forces helicopters had dropped barrel bombs containing chlorine on the Sukari neighborhood in eastern Aleppo on Tuesday.
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At least 24 civilians have been killed in air raids on a rebel-held area of Aleppo and an Islamic State-held village nearby. Our unarmed and neutral rescue workers have saved more than 60,000 people from the attacks in Syria, but there are many we can not reach.
The report could not be independently verified and it was not clear how the activists determined that chlorine gas was released.
The Syrian government has denied ever using the chemical weapon, which can be fatal if inhaled in large amounts.
The fighting and the aerial bombardment sent tens of thousands of people fleeing for safety, creating the latest wave of displacement, part of a pattern that has left almost half of the Syrian population displaced since the war began in 2011.
The latest estimates say that more than 470,000 people have been killed so far since the civil war began in 2011. Video posted online by the White Helmets showed young children wheezing and breathing into oxygen masks.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks Syrian violence using sources on the ground, said medical sources had reported 70 cases of suffocation.
The world’s chemical weapons watchdog said Wednesday it was “disturbed” by the alleged use of toxic chemicals in Aleppo after dozens of people had to be treated for breathing problems in the Syrian battlefront city.
Aleppo has been one of the areas hardest hit by escalating violence in recent months after the collapse of a partial truce brokered by the United States and Russian Federation in February. Rebels last week advanced in Hama, prompting fierce clashes with government forces.
The long-suffering northern city is one of the focal points of the grinding Syrian civil war, now in its sixth year, with rebels and pro-government forces trading indiscriminate fire across populated neighbourhoods.
Sept, 08, 2016:Fighting between Syrian government army and insurgents in Syria’s central Hama province forced about 100,000 people to leave their homes between August 28 and September 5, the United Nations humanitarian agency said Wednesday.
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“Most of those injured where women and children”, he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
