Russia’s military has claimed that it believes Syrian rebel groups used “toxic substances” in the ongoing battle for the country’s second city Aleppo.
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Kerry said. “And that is precisely what we are engaged in right now”.
Weve taken 12 injured people, six other patients have already died from suffocation.
Inside the city, Free Syrian Army (FSA), among them vetted US -backed groups, helped pile pressure on the army and its allies along other frontlines.
Earlier this year, the Syrian-American Medical Society (SAMS) said chemical weapons attacks have killed almost 1,500 people since civil war broke out in Syria more than five years ago.
According to the Observatory, at least 115 civilians, including 35 children, have been killed in the city since the rebel assault began on Sunday.
The Aleppo offensive groups fighters from Fateh Al-Sham Front, formerly Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front, the powerful Ahrar Al-Sham and other factions.
Across Syria, Egeland said, the United Nations was only able to meet 40 percent of its aid delivery targets for June and July.
The corridors, he said, “need to be guaranteed by all parties in the area”.
Meanwhile, harrowing footage has emerged showing a vital hospital in the city being attacked by Syrian air forces. We consider the proposal deeply flawed on humanitarian grounds and consider it [a] warning for the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) to urgently step up efforts to end the use of brutal siege tactics and illegal attacks on civilians.
“If this doesn’t happen, it will be a black stain on the conscience of humanity”, he said.
PHR has reported 373 attacks on 265 medical facilities since the beginning of Syria’s war, which began in 2011.
However, the Syrian state news agency SANA later accused rebels of firing rockets armed with toxic gas into government-controlled areas of nearby Aleppo, killing at least five people.
Residents said chlorine gas had been used in the attack, but the monitor could not confirm this.
The incident took place close to where Russian Federation said on Monday one of its military helicopters was shot down, killing the five people on board.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW, said in a statement that recent media reports that highlighted the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria are of great concern.
Jihadists and their rebel allies pressed an offensive Friday with a massive attack aimed at seizing a military academy south of Aleppo and breaking a three-week-old siege of insurgent neighbourhoods.
A doctor in Saraqeb who told CNN he treated some of those affected said their symptoms were consistent with chlorine poisoning.
The regime denied responsibility for the attack.
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Almost 5 million Syrians are registered with the U.N.as refugees – that is, displaced beyond Syria’s borders – in what is the largest refugee population today.
