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Syria conflict: Fear in Aleppo as air strikes resume

A hospital, blood bank and ambulances

are reported to have been hit as Syrian
government aircraft and artillery
bombarded rebel-held eastern Aleppo.

Syria's war

The director of the Bayan Children's

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Hospital was forced to take shelter in the

facility's basement.
Activists say at least 32 people, including
children, have been killed in Aleppo over
the past two days.
The air strikes resumed on Tuesday after a
three-week moratorium declared by the
government's ally Russia ended.

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Activists confirmed the resumption of government air strikes, amid
reports by state media of large troop deployments on several fronts
ahead of a major ground assault.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory, a monitoring group, said missiles
fired by jets, barrel bombs dropped from helicopters and artillery
targeted several areas of eastern Aleppo on Wednesday, including
Shaar, Sukkari, Sakhour and Karam al-Beik.
At least 21 people, including five children and an emergency worker,
were killed, the group said.

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The aftermath of an air strike at the Bayan Children's Hospital

The Independent Doctors Association, which supports several

facilities in Syria, reported that the Bayan Children's Hospital had
been badly damaged.
It quoted the hospital's director, Dr Hatem, as saying he was
trapped in the basement. "The planes are up above. We can't get
out. Maybe we can protect ourselves in this room," he added.
Rescue workers from the Syria Civil Defence, who are also known
as the White Helmets, meanwhile confirmed a paramedic had been
killed in Karam al-Beik.
"The helicopters won't stop for a single moment," spokesman Bebars
Mishal told the Reuters news agency. "Right now, the bombing won't
let up."
Air raids also reportedly continued in the countryside west of Aleppo.
The Syrian Observatory said 19 people were killed in the village of
Batbo on Wednesday.

Fatemah Alabed had to break off filming to comfort her children

Russia also announced the start of a major operation against jihadist

militants elsewhere in western Syria that saw the country's only
aircraft carrier used in combat for the first time.

Aleppo, once Syria's commercial and industrial hub, has been

divided in roughly two since 2012, with the government controlling
the west and rebels the east.

How the conflict in Aleppo has changed the fabric of the city

In the past year, Syrian troops have broken the deadlock with the
help of Iranian-backed militias and Russian air strikes.
On 22 September, two weeks after encircling the east and imposing
a siege on its 275,000 residents, they launched an all-out offensive
to take full control of the city.
The government and its ally Russia halted air strikes on 18 October
to allow civilians and rebels to leave, but few took up the offer.
By the end of the month, air strikes and shelling had killed more than
700 civilians in the east, while rocket-fire had left scores dead in the
west, according to the UN.

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