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Air strikes
against rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo had tapered off over
the weekend after the Syrian army announced it would reduce
raids for what it described as humanitarian reasons. But the
strikes have intensified since Tuesday.
Air strikes killed 13 people on Thursday, when warplanes hit
several rebel-held districts, including al-Kalaseh, Bustan
al-Qasr and al-Sakhour, civil defense official Ibrahim Abu
al-Laith told Reuters from Aleppo.
"The bombing started at 2 a.m. and it's going on till now," he
said.
Aleppo has been divided between government- and rebel-controlled
areas for years. More than 250,000 people are believed to be
trapped in eastern Aleppo, the rebels' most important urban
stronghold, facing shortages of food, fuel and medicine.
The Civil Defence is a rescue service operating in rebel-held
parts of Syria.
Syrian military officials could not immediately be reached for
comment on the latest situation in Aleppo. The Syrian and
Russian governments say they only target militants.
In a government-held area of western Aleppo, at least four
children were killed and 10 wounded on Thursday when shells
landed near a school, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
reported.
Syrian state news agency SANA said the school in the
al-Suleimaniya area had been targeted in what it described as a
terrorist attack.
The Observatory, a Britain-based war monitoring group, also said
shelling on government-held parts of Aleppo had killed eight
people on Wednesday.
(Reporting by Ellen Francis; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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