Baladi News – Follow up
U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said on Wednesday, 5 May, 2016 that Syria's government is refusing U.N. demands to deliver aid to hundreds of thousands of people including many in Aleppo, the city at the center of an eruption of fighting in the past two weeks.
Egeland told reporters after chairing a weekly meeting of nations supporting the Syria peace process, "We seem to be having new possible besieged areas on our watch, we are having hundreds of relief workers unable to move in Aleppo. It is a disgrace to see that while the population of Aleppo is bleeding, their options to flee have never been more difficult than now.”
Last February, the first and most comprehensive ceasefire in the 5 years Syrian war was implemented, but has virtually collapsed in recent weeks, with Aleppo bearing the brunt of the renewed bloodshed.