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07-10-2016, 06:58 AM
ALEPPO, Syria: Residents of rebel-held areas of Syria’s Aleppo on Saturday faced food and fuel shortages after a Syrian government advance cut the opposition’s last supply route into the city.
The army, for its part, said it was extending a 72-hour nationwide truce that began on Wednesday but has produced little respite in fighting.
Around 200,000 people remain in the opposition-held eastern sectors of Aleppo, which has been divided between government and rebel control since shortly after fighting in the city erupted in mid-2012.
Residents there described shortages of basic goods after government troops advanced within firing range of the key Castello Road supply route.
“For two days the situation was calm, I went to the market and I filled up my motorbike with gasoline. Today, I couldn’t even find a single tomato,” said Bilal Qaterji, a local textile factory employee.
“There’s **t a drop of fuel left because the Castello Road has been cut,” he told AFP.
Government troops effectively severed the Castello Road on Thursday with the capture of a hilltop within firing range of the key route.
Rebel forces responded by firing barrages of rockets into the government-held west of the city on Friday, killing at least 41 people, most of them civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Britain-based monitoring group said 14 children were among the dead, while Syrian state media gave a toll of 43 dead and 300 injured.
The advance and ongoing fighting came despite the government’s an**uncement on Wednesday of a 72-hour nationwide ceasefire for Eid al-Fitr, the holiday at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramazan.
The army said on Saturday it was extending the truce for a**ther 72 hours.
But the Observatory said fresh government air strikes on rebel-held Aleppo killed four civilians on Saturday.
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The army, for its part, said it was extending a 72-hour nationwide truce that began on Wednesday but has produced little respite in fighting.
Around 200,000 people remain in the opposition-held eastern sectors of Aleppo, which has been divided between government and rebel control since shortly after fighting in the city erupted in mid-2012.
Residents there described shortages of basic goods after government troops advanced within firing range of the key Castello Road supply route.
“For two days the situation was calm, I went to the market and I filled up my motorbike with gasoline. Today, I couldn’t even find a single tomato,” said Bilal Qaterji, a local textile factory employee.
“There’s **t a drop of fuel left because the Castello Road has been cut,” he told AFP.
Government troops effectively severed the Castello Road on Thursday with the capture of a hilltop within firing range of the key route.
Rebel forces responded by firing barrages of rockets into the government-held west of the city on Friday, killing at least 41 people, most of them civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Britain-based monitoring group said 14 children were among the dead, while Syrian state media gave a toll of 43 dead and 300 injured.
The advance and ongoing fighting came despite the government’s an**uncement on Wednesday of a 72-hour nationwide ceasefire for Eid al-Fitr, the holiday at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramazan.
The army said on Saturday it was extending the truce for a**ther 72 hours.
But the Observatory said fresh government air strikes on rebel-held Aleppo killed four civilians on Saturday.
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