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UN: Aleppo faces ‘bleak moment’ as aid blocked

Around 250,000 civilians in Syria’s besieged eastern Aleppo have run out of aid supplies. (AFP)
Reuters, Geneva Friday, 18 November 2016

Around 250,000 civilians in Syria’s besieged eastern Aleppo have run out of aid supplies and none of the warring sides have agreed safe passage for a relief convoy, a senior UN humanitarian official said on Friday.

Air strikes and shelling in the rebel-held east of Syria’s largest city has killed dozens this week, a monitoring group says. The bombardment resumed on Tuesday after a four-week pause, part of a wider military escalation by the Syrian government and its allies, including Russia, against insurgents.

UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said civilians trapped by the siege were out of food and medical stocks and bracing themselves for an increasingly fierce attack.

“My understanding is that virtually all warehouses are now empty and tens of thousands of families are running out of food and all other supplies,” Egeland told Reuters. “So this is a very bleak moment, and we are not talking about a tsunami here, we are talking about a manmade catastrophe from A to Z.”

The United Nations has proposed a humanitarian relief plan, with medical workers, medical supplies and food going into eastern Aleppo and evacuations of the sick and wounded.

The rebels had given positive signals, Egeland said, but he could not understand why they could not simply state their approval and pledge to guarantee the security of UN humanitarian operations.

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“Earlier on their side they were quarrelling over the correct access road and many of the technical and logistical elements of both the 48-hour convoy and the medical evacuations. It’s not really rational,” he said.

Russia had said it is positive in general about the plan but it has not given an official green light, he said. At the same time, Egeland said, Moscow had stepped up its air campaign in support of Syrian and allied ground forces.

The United Nations had hoped to send convoys with aid for 1 million Syrians in besieged or hard-to-reach areas this month, but so far not one has reached its destination.

“The needs are exploding and a killer winter is coming to the exhausted and vulnerable Syrian civilians. We have the trucks, we have relief workers that are willing to go, even though it’s dangerous, and we have very concrete plans,” Egeland said, and he was angry and frustrated at the “outrageous” situation.

He blamed arbitrary bureaucracy and the insistence of combatants that the convoys use roads known to be insecure or mined. Although the Syrian government was doing most of the besieging and was responsible for most of the obstacles, Egeland said rebel groups also often did little or nothing to help.

Last Update: Friday, 18 November 2016 KSA 19:07 - GMT 16:07
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...Aleppo-faces-bleak-moment-as-aid-blocked.html

 

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[UAE]

Sad that Aleppo has fallen to the vampires Assad, Mullah of Iran and Russia. Shame on us.

 

[Falcon29]

Sad that Aleppo has fallen to the vampires Assad, Mullah of Iran and Russia. Shame on us.

It's been getting a lot of attention lately, but I believe the loss is exaggerated. There is still opposition presence to the West, and north, currently in the north, the recent Turkish formed force is heading south against ISIS, to take over ISIS presence near Aleppo, which they can try to go after it again after that. That is political decision to be made by whoever is controlling that Turkish-formed force. If the pro-government axis can replicate what they achieved in Idlib, then it will be a big blow to the opposition. Right now though, it seems power is evenly divided between Kurds, Opp., ISIS, and regime. Regime has better land and in control of coast, and better political standing than the rest.

Regime needs a lot more manpower to able to secure Idlib and fend off ISIS to the east, I don't see where they can get that manpower. They need to rid Homs/Palmyra of ISIS before they turn their way to Idlib. That will depend on if Idlib will remain in ceasefire or not in coming weeks. If it remains, they will re-secure Palmyra, if not, war of attrition will take place with Idlib. Militants of Idlib have had a lot of time to reinforce defenses, so we will see what they did with that time in the near future.

 

[Lieutenant]

It's been getting a lot of attention lately, but I believe the loss is exaggerated. There is still opposition presence to the West, and north, currently in the north, the recent Turkish formed force is heading south against ISIS, to take over ISIS presence near Aleppo, which they can try to go after it again after that. That is political decision to be made by whoever is controlling that Turkish-formed force. If the pro-government axis can replicate what they achieved in Idlib, then it will be a big blow to the opposition. Right now though, it seems power is evenly divided between Kurds, Opp., ISIS, and regime. Regime has better land and in control of coast, and better political standing than the rest.

Regime needs a lot more manpower to able to secure Idlib and fend off ISIS to the east, I don't see where they can get that manpower. They need to rid Homs/Palmyra of ISIS before they turn their way to Idlib. That will depend on if Idlib will remain in ceasefire or not in coming weeks. If it remains, they will re-secure Palmyra, if not, war of attrition will take place with Idlib. Militants of Idlib have had a lot of time to reinforce defenses, so we will see what they did with that time in the near future.

Good read to the real picture.

 

[T-123456]

Regime needs a lot more manpower to able to secure Idlib and fend off ISIS to the east, I don't see where they can get that manpower

Really,you dont know?
What about Iranian militias and Hezbollah fighters?

 

[Scorpion]

Really,you dont know?
What about Iranian militias and Hezbollah fighters?

Why doesn't turkey with the back of its allies in the region e.g. GCC create a buffer zone inside Syria?

 

[sarvar_preus]

Why doesn't turkey with the back of its allies in the region e.g. GCC create a buffer zone inside Syria?

Because then it would spiral into an even larger conflict with the very real risk of a nuclear war.

 

[Scorpion]

Because then it would spiral into an even larger conflict with the very real risk of a nuclear war.

I doubt there will be any resistance from Assad and his thugs including Russia. What do you say?