DOUMA, SYRIA: Deadly air strikes hit the Syrian insurrection enclave of Eastern Ghouta for a seventh straight day on Saturday after the United Nations again behind schedule a vote on a ceasefire.
The Damascus authorities launched a devastating bombardment of the area simply outside the capital ultimate Sunday that has now killed just about 500 civilians including more than 100 kids, consistent with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Britain-based track of the conflict said a minimum of 21 civilians had been killed in contemporary strikes on Eastern Ghouta on Saturday, including 12 in the principle the city of Douma.
It has said the strikes are being performed via Syrian and Russian forces. Moscow, which intervened militarily in toughen of its Damascus ally in 2015, has denied any direct involvement in the Eastern Ghouta bombardment.
US President Donald Trump on Friday said Russia's contemporary actions in Syria had been a "disgrace".
Friday's civilian death toll in the enclave — underneath siege via the Syrian military since 2013 — totalled 41, including 17 kids, consistent with the Observatory.
The UN Security Council had been because of cling a vote on Friday on a answer calling for a month-long ceasefire to allow assist deliveries and the evacuation of significantly wounded civilians.
But the vote was postponed until 1700 GMT on Saturday as Western powers bickered with Russia over the wording.
Control of Eastern Ghouta is shared between two Islamist factions and Syria's former Al-Qaeda associate, and Russia insists there can be no ceasefire with the jihadists or their allies.
Russia has been urgent for a negotiated withdrawal of insurrection combatants and their households like the one who saw the government retake full regulate of 2nd city Aleppo in December 2016.
But all three insurrection groups have refused.
World leaders have expressed outrage on the plight of civilians in Eastern Ghouta, which UN chief Antonio Guterres called "hell on earth", but have up to now been powerless to halt the bloodshed.
The enclave is completely surrounded via government-controlled territory and its 400,000 citizens are unwilling or not able to escape the fatal siege.
The rebels have been firing back into Damascus, where a health facility was hit on Friday, state news company SANA reported.
At least 16 civilians have been killed in japanese districts of the capital since Sunday, consistent with state media, and plenty of citizens have sought transient lodging somewhere else for worry of a further intensification of the combating.
At the United Nations, US ambassador Nikki Haley expressed dismay as negotiations dragged directly to safe Russian popularity of a ceasefire answer.
"Unbelievable that Russia is stalling a vote on a ceasefire allowing humanitarian access in Syria," Haley posted on Twitter.
"How many more people will die before the Security Council agrees to take up this vote? Let's do this tonight. The Syrian people can't wait."
Russia has vetoed 11 draft resolutions on Syria to dam action that targeted its ally. In November, it used its veto to finish a UN-led investigation of chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron wrote to Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday to invite him to back the ceasefire.
Negotiations have stumbled over a key provision of the draft answer that specifies when the ceasefire will begin.
Following hours of tough negotiations, an amended draft was circulated that demands a 30-day ceasefire "without delay," while stopping wanting specifying the timing.
A prior draft had said the ceasefire would pass into drive 72 hours after the adoption, but that was dropped from the text in a bid to achieve compromise with Russia.
In any other concession to Russia, the draft also specifies that the ceasefire is not going to observe to operations in opposition to the Islamic State crew or Al-Qaeda, in conjunction with "individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated" with the blacklisted terror groups.
The text would demand the rapid lifting of all sieges, including that on Eastern Ghouta, and order either side to "cease depriving civilians of food and medicine indispensable to their survival."
The Damascus authorities launched a devastating bombardment of the area simply outside the capital ultimate Sunday that has now killed just about 500 civilians including more than 100 kids, consistent with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Britain-based track of the conflict said a minimum of 21 civilians had been killed in contemporary strikes on Eastern Ghouta on Saturday, including 12 in the principle the city of Douma.
It has said the strikes are being performed via Syrian and Russian forces. Moscow, which intervened militarily in toughen of its Damascus ally in 2015, has denied any direct involvement in the Eastern Ghouta bombardment.
US President Donald Trump on Friday said Russia's contemporary actions in Syria had been a "disgrace".
Friday's civilian death toll in the enclave — underneath siege via the Syrian military since 2013 — totalled 41, including 17 kids, consistent with the Observatory.
The UN Security Council had been because of cling a vote on Friday on a answer calling for a month-long ceasefire to allow assist deliveries and the evacuation of significantly wounded civilians.
But the vote was postponed until 1700 GMT on Saturday as Western powers bickered with Russia over the wording.
Control of Eastern Ghouta is shared between two Islamist factions and Syria's former Al-Qaeda associate, and Russia insists there can be no ceasefire with the jihadists or their allies.
Russia has been urgent for a negotiated withdrawal of insurrection combatants and their households like the one who saw the government retake full regulate of 2nd city Aleppo in December 2016.
But all three insurrection groups have refused.
World leaders have expressed outrage on the plight of civilians in Eastern Ghouta, which UN chief Antonio Guterres called "hell on earth", but have up to now been powerless to halt the bloodshed.
The enclave is completely surrounded via government-controlled territory and its 400,000 citizens are unwilling or not able to escape the fatal siege.
The rebels have been firing back into Damascus, where a health facility was hit on Friday, state news company SANA reported.
At least 16 civilians have been killed in japanese districts of the capital since Sunday, consistent with state media, and plenty of citizens have sought transient lodging somewhere else for worry of a further intensification of the combating.
At the United Nations, US ambassador Nikki Haley expressed dismay as negotiations dragged directly to safe Russian popularity of a ceasefire answer.
"Unbelievable that Russia is stalling a vote on a ceasefire allowing humanitarian access in Syria," Haley posted on Twitter.
"How many more people will die before the Security Council agrees to take up this vote? Let's do this tonight. The Syrian people can't wait."
Russia has vetoed 11 draft resolutions on Syria to dam action that targeted its ally. In November, it used its veto to finish a UN-led investigation of chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron wrote to Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Friday to invite him to back the ceasefire.
Negotiations have stumbled over a key provision of the draft answer that specifies when the ceasefire will begin.
Following hours of tough negotiations, an amended draft was circulated that demands a 30-day ceasefire "without delay," while stopping wanting specifying the timing.
A prior draft had said the ceasefire would pass into drive 72 hours after the adoption, but that was dropped from the text in a bid to achieve compromise with Russia.
In any other concession to Russia, the draft also specifies that the ceasefire is not going to observe to operations in opposition to the Islamic State crew or Al-Qaeda, in conjunction with "individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated" with the blacklisted terror groups.
The text would demand the rapid lifting of all sieges, including that on Eastern Ghouta, and order either side to "cease depriving civilians of food and medicine indispensable to their survival."
New strikes hit Syria enclave after UN delays truce vote
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