Syria War
Attacks on Aleppo to distribute to 50,000 Syrians
The intensified struggle for the nordsyrische city of Aleppo brings the remaining 300.000 inhabitants into ever worse Distress. Kurdish fighters report to a strategic victory – Russia is expected a truce is proposed.
The great Distress in Aleppo
The Offensive by the Syrian forces, backed by Russian bombing raids against rebels in the province of Aleppo, according to estimates by the International Committee of the Red cross (ICRC) so far, 50,000 people to flee. The Syria representative of the ICRC, Marianne Gasser, said, at extremely low temperatures, people tried, without protection, water and food, under very dangerous conditions to survive. Since roads are interrupted, have you great difficulty, the Displaced persons with the Essentials to provide.
The aid organization “Doctors without borders”, warned that the health system in the Region of Asas North of Aleppo stand “before the collapse”. The area around the embattled border town was even before the new fighting, “one of the worst of this brutal war-affected regions” have been made the Syria-ordinator of Muskilda Zancada significantly.
No water supply in Aleppo
In the city of Aleppo, according to the United Nations (UN) still 300,000 people endure, there is no regular water supply and more. The remaining inhabitants are on 100 distribution points dependent on which, among other things, the Red cross water issues. In addition, there is hardly any power, there is Bezinmangel, as assistants continue to have told. If the situation worsen, expect the UN so that 150,000 civilians from Aleppo to flee. From the Region have already tens of thousands of Syrians to the Turkish border had an impact. There waiting for you in Store.
Refugees waiting in a camp on the Turkish border, on the distribution of food
Kurds expel Islamists from the military base in Aleppo
In the province of Aleppo took Kurdish fighters, according to activists, a strategically important air force base. The Kurdish Volksverteidigungseinheiten (YPG) had, together with their Arab allies, the Islamists and other fighters from the base Minnigh and from the adjacent same name in town sold, said the Syrian Observatory for human rights. This would give the Islamists the only military airport lost, in the province controlled, said the head of the Observatory, Rami Abdel Rahman.
Cease-fire to 1. March?
Several members of the UN security Council in New York, urged Russia, the airstrikes to cease. They were “a direct cause for the crisis in Aleppo,” said new Zealand’s UN Ambassador Gerard van Bohemen in the deliberations of the UN Committee on the situation in Aleppo. The war on the ground have a direct influence on the political discussions and so that the humanitarian Situation. Also the UK and France called Moscow on the bombing to stop so that humanitarian workers people in Need could reach. “It is not a Favor to the we the Syrian government and their allies ask, it is your duty”, stressed France’s UN Ambassador François Delattre.
Residents after an air RAID by Syrian forces in the rubble of their former homes in Aleppo
Behind the Scenes, should Russia with the United States about a possible cease-fire to negotiate. The Russian UN Ambassador Vitali Churkin said in New York, you run “very important” conversations in the run-up to the international Syria meeting in Munich this Thursday. Reportedly, Russia to a truce for 1. March have suggested. However, said U.S. Außenamtssprecher Mark Toner in Washington, before the discussions in Munich will be the content of any proposals will not analyze or discuss it.
In the run-up to the Munich security conference are the representatives of the so-called Syria-contact group together. In addition to U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry and his counterparts from Germany and Russia, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Sergey Lavrov, according to information of the Federal foreign office also delegates of Iran and Saudi Arabia in the capital of Bavaria is expected.
se/wl (afp, ape, rtr, dpa)