People inspect a damaged site after airstrikes on the rebel held Tariq al-Bab neighbourhood of Aleppo September 24, 2016.
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Syrians in eastern Aleppo and other besieged cities and towns are facing a dire shortage of food, medicine and other supplies.
The organization said Sunday it was reaching 60,000 residents trapped in the towns of Madaya, Zabadani, Foua, and Kafraya. An airstrike destroyed a United Nations -backed humanitarian convoy Monday inside opposition territory shortly after the Syrian military announced the agreement had expired.
Syrian rebels earlier declared the push for peace “futile” after Syrian government and Russian warplanes bombarded Aleppo in the worst surge of violence in the city for years.
Mohammad Zein Khandaqani, a member of the Medical Council, which oversees medical affairs in the opposition areas, says he expects numerous most badly wounded will die from insufficient treatment and facilities.
Al-Selmo estimated that more than 100 people have been killed and hundreds more injured within Aleppo neighborhoods by the airstrikes.
The meeting was likely to be held at 10 am (1400 GMT) on Sunday, the diplomats said.
“The secretary-general underlines that the apparent systematic use of these types of indiscriminate weapons in densely populated areas may amount to war crimes”.
De Mistura said U.S.
Fawaz Gerges, professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, said there was a “deficit of trust” between the two powers that complicated efforts to restore the ceasefire. He added that if this turns out to be true, it amounts to a war crime.
British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC that Russian Federation is “guilty of protracting this war and making it far more hideous” and suggesting that Moscow was possibly guilty of war crimes in the bombing of a humanitarian aid convoy near Aleppo last week that killed 20 people. All this is right except for two words: “Instead of “Russia” it needs to be “Great Britain” and instead of ‘Syria, ‘ ‘Iraq'”.
Shortly after the ceasefire ended Monday, a UN-Syrian Arab Red Crescent aid convoy was hit in an airstrike, killing about 20 people.
Mr Johnson appeared to go further, saying the convoy could have been deliberately targeted.
Activists say allied Russian forces have participated in the strikes, though Moscow has not confirmed its involvement.
“We should be looking at whether or not that targeting is done in the knowledge that those are wholly innocent civilian targets. That is a war crime”.
NPR’s Alice Fordham reports there is also ground fighting around the city, and forces loyal to Syrian president Bashar Assad, whose regime is backed by Russian Federation, are gaining ground north of Aleppo, trying to cut off supply lines to rebel-held parts of the city.
The UK, US and France have called an emergency United Nations security council meeting on Sunday to address the escalating situation in Aleppo.
It included a nationwide truce, improved humanitarian aid access and the possibility of joint military operations against Islamic State and al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, formerly known as the Nusra Front.
Speaking at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, Matthew Rycroft said the push by the USA and Russian Federation to stop the fighting is “nearing the end of its life”.
Syrian government forces captured a rebel-held area on the edge of Aleppo on Saturday, tightening their siege on opposition-held neighborhoods in the northern city as an ongoing wave of airstrikes destroyed more buildings.
The approximately 250,000 people in east Aleppo have been under near-continuous siege since government troops encircled the area in mid-July.
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Yasser al-Yousef, a spokesman for the Nour el-Din al-Zinki rebel faction, says rebels seized Handarat late Saturday night.
