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'Save us': Aleppo civilians plead for help as airstrikes resume [View all]
Source: The Guardian
'Save us': Aleppo civilians plead for help as airstrikes resume
Call for international community to put a stop to fighting as
evacuation of civilians from stricken city blocked by militias
Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul
Wednesday 14 December 2016 13.23 GMT
Desperate residents in the remaining pockets of rebel-held Aleppo reacted with mounting horror and anguish as shelling and airstrikes resumed in the city, hours after a ceasefire and evacuation deal offered them hope of escape.
Doctors and other civilians, who hours earlier expressed cautious optimism that they would be able to leave east Aleppo, have again implored the international community to put a stop to the fighting that has left their homes in ruins and allow them to seek a safe haven elsewhere.
Thousands of civilians are still trapped in a small enclave of east Aleppo, bereft of basic supplies like food, electricity and water and without any functioning hospitals.
A ceasefire agreed on Tuesday by Turkish intelligence and the Russian military was to have permitted evacuations to Idlib province to begin on Wednesday morning, but Turkish and rebel officials said the Iranian-backed militias who had spearheaded the Assad government’s assault on rebel-held Aleppo were not permitting civilians to leave. The Turkish Red Crescent said nearly 1,000 people were being held at a militia checkpoint.
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Call for international community to put a stop to fighting as
evacuation of civilians from stricken city blocked by militias
Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul
Wednesday 14 December 2016 13.23 GMT
Desperate residents in the remaining pockets of rebel-held Aleppo reacted with mounting horror and anguish as shelling and airstrikes resumed in the city, hours after a ceasefire and evacuation deal offered them hope of escape.
Doctors and other civilians, who hours earlier expressed cautious optimism that they would be able to leave east Aleppo, have again implored the international community to put a stop to the fighting that has left their homes in ruins and allow them to seek a safe haven elsewhere.
Thousands of civilians are still trapped in a small enclave of east Aleppo, bereft of basic supplies like food, electricity and water and without any functioning hospitals.
A ceasefire agreed on Tuesday by Turkish intelligence and the Russian military was to have permitted evacuations to Idlib province to begin on Wednesday morning, but Turkish and rebel officials said the Iranian-backed militias who had spearheaded the Assad government’s assault on rebel-held Aleppo were not permitting civilians to leave. The Turkish Red Crescent said nearly 1,000 people were being held at a militia checkpoint.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/14/aleppo-civilians-plea-as-airstrikes-resume-syria
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