UN Expert: Analysis of Footage Shows Aid Convoy Attack was Deliberate

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UN Expert: Analysis of Footage Shows Aid Convoy Attack was Deliberate
October 5, 2016, Wednesday @ 17:31 in World | Views: 101

The UN's secretary general denounced the attack as "savage and apparently deliberate", Photo: EPA


A UN expert has said that analysis of satellite imagery taken after adeadly attack on anaid convoy in northern Syria last month shows that it was an air strike, BBC reports.

At least 18 people were killed when lorries unloading at a Syrian Arab Red Crescent warehouse in a rebel-held town outside Aleppo came under fire.

The US believes Russian warplanes bombed the convoy. Russia, which backs Syria's government, denies the charge. UN officials have said the incident could constitute a war crime.
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has established an internal board of inquiry to investigate the attack, which he has denounced as "sickening, savage and apparently deliberate".

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Aleppo's White Helmet first responders: 'We'll stay as long as we can breathe'





SPIRIT OF HUMANITY
The civil defense group is persevering in its search and rescue efforts, even amid the daunting challenges posed by intense airstrikes and artillery shelling in Syria's second city over the past two weeks.

By Nicholas Blanford, Correspondent OCTOBER 7, 2016
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BEIRUT, LEBANON — For Ammar Salmo, his daily bid to save lives as bombs and artillery shells fall from the skies on Aleppo is caught up in a daunting barrage of obstacles: the barrel bombs that tumble from the backs of Syrian Army helicopters, the airstrikes that collapse apartment blocks and houses, the lack of medical facilities even as more than 300 people reportedly have died in the city in the past two weeks alone – turning all sense of humanity on its head.

“In Aleppo right now … day is like night because we are attacked at every moment. And we are so exhausted,” says Mr. Salmo, the Syria Civil Defense chief in Aleppo, speaking with a breathless urgency via Whatsapp from his headquarters in the city. “We are exhausted because we cannot sleep at night because of the [sound] of the clashes, the [sound] of the war, of the aircraft that are all the time in the sky…. It is so hard and difficult right now, but we will work as long as we can breathe.”

Amid the bloodshed and destruction that has ravaged Aleppo, Syria’s second city, a group of volunteer activists face a Sisyphean task, risking their own lives to save lives, pulling the dead and wounded alike from the shattered ruins of buildings toppled by barrel bombs, missiles, and artillery fire – taking on roles for which nothing they experienced before Syria dissolved into civil war could have prepared them.

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