Aleppo has become a 'ghost city'
Follow @Mazana17Everyone is waiting for a way out of Aleppo, says 28-year-old Monther Etaky, a graphic designer who lives there.
"The city is now a ghost city," the father of a two-month-old boy tells our Reporter.
"There are only ambulances and fire trucks around and over the past three days the shelling has been horrible.
"Usually
I get used to the barrel bombs and I could sleep normally -- but now I
can't -- the new
missiles are so loud and horrifying."
A Syrian man carries a baby after removing him from the rubble of a destroyed building.
and injuring hundreds more, according to
Ammar al-Selmo, the head of the Syria Civil Defense group, a volunteer
emergency medical service.
On Sunday, top UN officials described the Syrian regime's brutal offensive against areas of the besieged northern city of Aleppo as "barbaric."
Following
the collapse of a short-lived, US and Russia-brokered ceasefire, Syrian
forces pounded
eastern Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 85 people and
wounding more than 300 others, an activist
group reported.
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Etaky's
young son has been suffering with a fever but he says he has been
unable to get him treatment
with the city's resources brutally
stretched.
Food has become hugely
expensive. The graphic designer who married a year ago says his family
rely
on basics such as lentils, rice and eggplants, while the local
council hands out bread.
He takes his son and wife with him to buy food such is his fear that they will be shelled in the house.
Medical organizations are fully stretched and options are running out fast.
"The hospitals are all full and the doctors are all busy," he said. "There's no milk for the children."
Aid arrives to four towns
On
Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed it had
managed to deliver aid
to four towns caught up in the conflict.
According
to the ICRC, 71 trucks reached rebel-held Madaya and Zabadani, near
Damascus,
and government-controlled Foah and Kefraya, in Idlib province.
The trucks brought food, medical supplies and hygiene kits for 60,000 people.
Syria's
military declared the ceasefire over last Monday, after a weekend
strike by US-led coalition warplanes on a Syrian army post killed dozens
of troops. The US military did not dispute the strike, but
characterized it as "unintentional" and relayed its "regret" to Syria
through Russia, saying the intended
target had been ISIS.
Shortly
after the ceasefire ended, a UN and Syrian Arab Red Crescent aid convoy
was hit in an airstrike, killing about 20 people. US officials blamed
Russia, while Moscow denied that Russian or Syrian
warplanes were
responsible.
Hospitals overwhelmed
The bombardment destroyed residential centers and overwhelmed hospitals.
"Everyone in Aleppo is depressed," an activist on the ground told CNN.
"They
don't know what they have done to become targets for warplanes. Fear is
clear in the eyes
of anyone you see walking the streets of Aleppo.
Yesterday I saw a woman walking on the street
and crying , no clear
reason, just crying."
A
Syrian boy receives treatment at a make-shift hospital following air
strikes on rebel-held eastern areas of Aleppo on September 24, 2016.
Hundreds
of airstrikes have rocked the city, home to more than 250,000 people,
since the Syrian government, backed by Russia, announced a renewed,
"comprehensive" offensive on Thursday.
Sunday's
death toll marked an increase in casualties, according to the Aleppo
Media Center (AMC),
an opposition-affiliated group of activists that
works to document the conflict.
Wounded
people are dying because health services are overstretched and
providers don't have the
ability or capacity to treat them, the activist
said. Due to a lack of supplies, hospitals are performing amputations
to keep some people alive.
Only 20 doctors remain in eastern Aleppo, the activist added.
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