US Secretary of State John Kerry this month said that Washington and Damascus ally Moscow had reached a common understanding on the steps needed to get Syria’s peace process back on track.
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“Nineteen civilians were killed and 55 others injured, including children and women”, he said.
IDA also posted a video online showing doctors carrying a tiny baby in a room lined with incubators and sandbags piled high just outside the entrance.
The World Health Organization says Syria is the most unsafe place for health care workers to operate past year, with 135 attacks on health facilities and workers in 2015.
Syrian government forces and their allies last week laid a siege to rebel-held parts of Aleppo that has been contested since July 2012.
The result, a half-dozen east Aleppo medical workers tell Syria Direct, is that five of the city’s hospitals have been reduced to basic field clinics, only capable of stabilizing and transferring patients to the three hospitals still able to conduct advanced medical procedures.
The head nurse at the facility said: “The situation is so bad”.
Beshr al-Hawi, a spokesman of Aleppo’s opposition-run local council, warned that the besieged city is facing a humanitarian catastrophe.
Britain, France and the United States on Monday backed a UN call for a humanitarian truce in Aleppo after four hospitals were bombed and civilians were killed by air strikes in the Syrian city.
In Damascus, rebel rockets fired from insurgent positions on the outskirts of the capital hit several central districts, the Observatory said.
O’Brien, the aid chief, said 5.5 million people need assistance in hard-to-reach and besieged parts of Syria.
Syria’s conflict erupted in March 2011 with anti-government protests but has since morphed into a complex multi-front war.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, said Russian Federation and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces must halt their attacks on Aleppo and reopen the Castello Road.
He stressed the importance of rebuilding the momentum created in the first half of the year, in particular by the humanitarian task force of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) – consisting of the United Nations, the Arab League, the European Union and 18 countries that have been working on a way forward since late last year.
De Mistura has been hoping to convene talks in August.
The Syrian army also called on the opposition fighters to drop their weapons and give themselves up to authorities.
Mr Lavrov, meanwhile, said on Tuesday that recent discussions between Russian Federation and the U.S. should encourage moderate Syrian opposition groups to leave areas occupied by Al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat Al Nusra in order to help implement a truce.
The International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria confirmed the news on Twitter.
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Sunday saw heavy clashes in the northern town of Manbij, where the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance is pressing its campaign against IS, the Observatory said. Russian Federation began supporting Assad’s troops in September with air strikes.
