Saturday, December 17, 2016

Syria hopes to civilians, evacuation may resume


Trapped civilians and rebels in the city of Aleppo in Syria, waiting to depart after reports that it achieved a new agreement allowing the resumption of the evacuation.

Sources from the Syrian government and rebels declare that the agreement would allow some people to leave the besieged enclave. But a few hours after the announcement, humanitarian aid agencies are still waiting to resume operations.

At least 6 thousand people fled from the east of Aleppo during the fragile truce on Thursday, but a day later broke evacuations.

Like for Aleppo, the agreement is expected to include the evacuation by two other towns controlled by rebels and the other 2 are government strongholds.

In the area of ​​Aleppo has been in recent weeks intensified ahead of the government troops. Friday morning there was turmoil when evacuation checked out of the city along the corridors to areas controlled by the rebels, Khan al-Asal and Touman Khan, was banned.

The government claimed that rebel fighters had opened fire on the convoy at a checkpoint in the locality Ramuseh while the rebels accused the government of firing first.

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