The UN's top aid official voiced anger Monday (August 22nd) at the inability of world powers to agree on a truce to allow aid into the Syrian city of Aleppo, warning of an "unparalleled" humanitarian catastrophe, AFP reported.
Speaking during the Security Council's third meeting on the crisis in Aleppo this month, Stephen O'Brien renewed his call for a 48-hour pause in fighting in Aleppo, where violence has escalated.
"In Aleppo, we risk seeing a humanitarian catastrophe unparalleled in the over five years of bloodshed and carnage in the Syrian conflict," O'Brien said, adding that the city "has become the apex of horror" for suffering Syrians.
He urged all countries with influence to rapidly reach agreement on a truce.
