In two districts on the besieged eastern side of Syria's battleground city of Aleppo, local volunteers distributed meagre bags containing the last food aid left in their depots, AFP reported Wednesday (November 16th).

"Our depots are empty, we have nothing else to distribute," said Ammar Qadah, director of Al-Sham Humanitarian Foundation, a Syrian charity in the opposition-held side of the city.

No aid has entered eastern Aleppo since mid-July, when regime forces surrounded the opposition-held east, sealing off more than 250,000 residents.

"Today we finished distributing food aid to the roughly 2,000 families that we support," said Qadah, speaking Tuesday at a warehouse in Maadi neighbourhood.

"This month, we have only been able to distribute rations a quarter of the usual size because of the dwindling supplies," he added.

Last week, the UN said the last of the food aid it had delivered to east Aleppo before the siege began was being distributed .

A World Food Programme spokeswoman, Bettina Luescher, said the UN agency's partners had delivered the last of their aid over the weekend.

Meanwhile, regime and allied warplanes on Wednesday pounded opposition-held parts of northern Syria, killing at least 35 people in Aleppo city in 24 hours.