WEB DESK
The devastating Russian-Syrian military assault on Aleppo continued Saturday with Russian airstrikes, barrel bombs and a shelling offensive by Syrian ground troops.
At least two barrel bombs hit the largest hospital in the rebel-held side of Aleppo city Saturday. The medical organisation that supports the hospital said, it had already been hit by heavy bombardment on Wednesday along with the second largest hospital in the area.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, said, air strikes also hit a smaller field hospital in the Sakhur neighbourhood on Saturday.
Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said, one person was killed and the field hospital is out of service.
At least two barrel bombs hit the largest hospital in the rebel-held side of Aleppo, according to the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS).
“Two barrel bombs hit the M10 hospital and there were reports of a cluster bomb as well,” said Adham Sahloul of the SAMS.
Both M10 and the second-largest hospital in the area, M2, were heavily bombed on Wednesday, attacks that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon denounced as “war crimes.”
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson warned Friday that Moscow risked becoming “a pariah nation,” as he hit out at the continued bombing raids in Syria.
Meanwhile, Russian airstrikes targeted supply lines into rebel-held areas in the Malah district, while fighting continued unabated on the front line in the Suleiman al-Halaby neighborhood, north of Aleppo’s Old City.
The Syrian army said it had made advances into the old city, a claim denied by the rebels.
“They are shelling the old city heavily after another failed attempt to gain ground. They have lost several fighters and we are steadfast,” said Abu Hamam, a rebel from the Failaq al-Sham group.