'Syria is bleeding': Aleppo facing war's worst humanitarian crisis, UN says
East Aleppo is ‘well into terrible descent into pitiless and merciless abyss’, United Nations official said, as Russia refused to stop bombing but considered ‘pause’
Julian Borger
World affairs editor
Thursday 29 September 2016
15.26 EDT
The UN’s chief humanitarian official said the people of Aleppo are facing a humanitarian catastrophe worse than anything witnessed so far in Syria’s brutal five-year war.
Stephen O’Brien made the remarks to the UN security council on Thursday as Russia rejected calls to halt its bombing campaign on eastern Aleppo, saying it might consider a 48-hour humanitarian “pause” instead.
“Let me be clear: east Aleppo this minute is not at the edge of the precipice,” O’Brien said. “It is well into its terrible descent into the pitiless and merciless abyss of a humanitarian catastrophe unlike any we have witnessed in Syria.
“Syria is bleeding. Its citizens are dying. We all hear their cry for help.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/29/aleppo-syria-war-humanitarian-crisis-un
