Fighting raged in the battle scarred Syrian city of Aleppo as the UN envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura held talks with Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov.
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Fighting raged in the battle scarred Syrian city of Aleppo as the UN envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura held talks with Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov.
Rebel militia launched dozens of fatal rocket attacks at government held districts hitting an obstetrics hospital.
Dozens killed in day-long battle b/ween pro & anti-regime forces in Aleppo, says Syrian Observatory for Human Rights pic.twitter.com/vTd8y62V4b
— AJ+ (
ajplus) <a href="https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/727790444390825984">May 4, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <b></b>Assad's forces responded with air strikes and barrel bomb attacks of rebel neigbourhoods. <b></b> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"tw-align-center data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Aleppo is bleeding. <a href="https://t.co/80zBHBjoL4">https://t.co/80zBHBjoL4</a> <a href="https://t.co/nUFvA5hlW7">pic.twitter.com/nUFvA5hlW7</a></p>— AJE News (AJENews) May 4, 2016
The population of the destroyed city remained defiant:“Neither Assad, nor America, nor Russia – no one in the world can make us leave Aleppo. We will stay. We will stay in spite of Assad. He is a lowly dog and all those with him.” > Aleppo is bleeding. https://t.co/80zBHBjoL4 pic.twitter.com/nUFvA5hlW7
— AJE News (
AJENews) <a href="https://twitter.com/AJENews/status/727711606390525953">May 4, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <b></b>Medical centres are under increasing threat in the conflict with a Doctors Without Borders hospital destroyed in rebel held Aleppo last week. <b></b>The ICRC said six clinics had been targeted in less than a week. <b></b> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"tw-align-center data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">500 metres from our <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Aleppo?src=hash">#Aleppo</a> office today, a maternity ward was attacked. Remind the world: hospitals are <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotATarget?src=hash">#NotATarget</a> <a href="https://t.co/SIwg4RvrT3">pic.twitter.com/SIwg4RvrT3</a></p>— ICRC (ICRC) May 3, 2016
Joanne Liu from Doctors Without Borders addressed the UN: “For me today, what is needed is to take action to prevent attacks, not just to vote and pass a resolution here.” > “What are individuals in wars today? Expendable commodities, dead or alive” says JoanneLiu_MSF</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UNSC?src=hash">#UNSC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotATarget?src=hash">#NotATarget</a> <a href="https://t.co/qksEf7EPMD">pic.twitter.com/qksEf7EPMD</a></p>— MSF International (MSF) May 3, 2016
The UN Security Council voted on and passed a new resolution aiming to protect civilians and health workers in war situations.