He says countries “that keep feeding the war machine also have blood on their hands” and accuses unnamed governments attending the United Nations meeting of ignoring, facilitating, funding, planning and carrying out “atrocities” against civilians on all sides.
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The victims of the attack were mostly truck drivers and Red Crescent workers.
A paramedic, speaking in a video released by Aleppo 24 News, a media collective, blamed Russian and government warplanes as well as Syrian army helicopter gunships that he said dropped barrel bombs.
In Moscow, Russia’s Defense Minister strongly denied suggestions – carried by some Syrian activists – that its warplanes hit the convoy.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks and it is unclear whether the convoy was hit by an airstrike or shelled.
A statement uploaded to Facebook by Aleppo activists said: ‘Dozens of martyrs and wounded in Aleppo, and 20 vehicles for Red Crescent set on fire in airstrikes.
Before news of the attack broke, neither the USA nor Russian Federation – the countries which brokered the pact – publicly said that the ceasefire is over.
The Turkish leader said on Monday that the offensive will last until the area “is no longer a threat” to Turkey.
America apologised for the bombing which occurred on a base near the eastern Deir al Zor airport, insisting their intended target was Islamic State fighters, and Theresa May has admitted Britain played a role in the attack while alleging the British military would never “intentionally” strike Syrian forces.
“The United States will raise this issue directly with Russian Federation”.
ICRC President Peter Maurer said the attack was a “flagrant violation of global humanitarian law” and “totally unacceptable”.
Abdurrahman said the convoy of about 30 trucks had crossed earlier from a government-controlled area and were hit from the air hours after they reached the Red Crescent warehouse.
The airstrikes hit a truck convoy on Monday night, killing around 20 people, including a local Syrian Red Crescent volunteer.
A deadly attack on an aid convoy near Aleppo was a clear violation of global law and could seriously hamper humanitarian work in Syria, the president of the worldwide Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday. -Russian brokered cease-fire was over, shortly after the Russian military said it was “meaningless” to continue observing the agreement.
As an “immediate security measure, other convoy movements in Syria have been suspended”, Jens Laerke, spokesman for the United Nations humanitarian agency told reporters in Geneva.
Along with the aid depot and 18 trucks, the strikes also destroyed a building that housed a printing press that produced stationery and school books, said Ammar Selmo, head of Civil Defense in Aleppo, who was in Urem al-Kubra on Monday, said.
The U.N. says over 6 million Syrians are living in besieged or hard-to-reach areas and require humanitarian aid.
Within one minute of the strike, the US tracked a Russian-made Su-24 directly over the region of the attack, USA officials said.
David Butter, associate fellow of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House, called the latest development a “severe setback” and said the prospects for peace “look very poor” at this point.
George Sabra, of the opposition High Negotiations Committee, told The Associated Press on Monday that the truce has been repeatedly violated and did not succeed in its main objective – opening roads for aid to enter besieged rebel-held areas.
The attack late on Monday came just hours after the Syrian military declared the weeklong U.S.
“There were planned convoys today, and those are not happening”, said David Swanson, a spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
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The cease-fire came into effect on September 12.
