Both the Syrian and Russian governments have denied attacking the convoy and have blamed rebels.
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“Just when we think it can not get any worse, the power of depravity sinks lower”, Ban told world leaders convening at the UN General Assembly annual meeting.
He said the first strike came at about 19:00 local time on Monday, when a helicopter dropped several barrel bombs.
President Barack Obama also seemed to reference the besieged aid workers in Syria during his remarks alongside Ban Tuesday: “Those in Syria and elsewhere who risk their lives to deliver aid to people in dire need. the entire world is in their debt”. “Those who bombed them were cowards”.
The incident could deal a powerful blow to the ceasefire, the latest attempt to halt a war in its sixth year.
The convoy with humanitarian aid heading to the embattled city of Aleppo can be seen being accompanied by a militant pickup truck, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov has said. The strike came just hours after the Syrian army announced the end of the truce Monday, accusing rebels of failing to “commit to a single element” of the US-Russia deal.
Shortly afterwards, missiles hit an aid convoy – more than 20 trucks full of food, medicine and other essential supplies – and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) warehouse where they were unloading the humanitarian relief. Fresh fighting took place between ground forces in the north of the country, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Among those killed was the head of the Syrian Red Crescent for the area, Omar Barakat.
The attack on the convoy of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent destroyed 18 of 31 trucks.
“For a convoy to be targeted in an air strike is truly outrageous”.
Aid convoys for four Syrian towns will be postponed as staff reassess security after the deadly attack on relief trucks and intensified violence, a senior ICRC official said earlier.
In the battleground city of Aleppo, air raids and artillery fire hit rebel-held districts until approximately 2am (2300 GMT Monday), an AFP correspondent said. Russian Federation and Syria said at least 62 soldiers were killed and more than 100 were wounded in the strike, which the US military has said it is investigating.
The US military, for its part, has been reviewing classified radar, signals and aerial surveillance intelligence.
“No one else has aircraft in that area”, said leader Riad Hijab in NY.
Video footage from after the attack showed a Civil Defence member pointing towards burning buildings surrounded by rubble, twisted metal and damaged vehicles, pointing out what he said was the aftermath of the strike. “It’s the only show in town”, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said after an hour-long session that others described as “tense” and “dramatic”. “Without (a) ceasefire it will be (a) spiral of war, but we have to be honest, the US-Russian negotiation has reached its limits”.
In the footage, a truck can be seen pulling something which appears to be a mortar. The U.N. Security Council also will take up the Syria crisis on Wednesday, though diplomats also have abandoned hopes of a passing a resolution to endorse the U.S.
CNN can not confirm the authenticity of the video or who was responsible for the attack.
A humanitarian aid group said the death toll was higher.
He added countries “that keep feeding the war machine also have blood on their hands”, and accused unnamed governments attending the United Nations meeting of ignoring, facilitating, funding, planning and carrying out “atrocities” against civilians on all sides. “Present in this hall today are representatives of governments that have ignored, facilitated, funded, participated in or even planned and carried out atrocities inflicted by all sides of the Syria conflict against Syrian civilians”.
The bombing has fuelled growing skepticism that the increasingly fragile truce in Syria can be revived, in spite of the United States insisting it is “not dead”.
“It wasn’t until 3:00 am that we were able to put out the fires and pull out the wounded and martyrs”, he said.
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He said all nations should be responsible for welcoming those who are fleeing war. “If we can’t, we walk away”. “We know it wasn’t an airstrike by the coalition that we work with”.
