SYRIA. New raid airforce Aleppo: 13 dead

At least 13 people, including two children, died Tuesday, Dec. 17 in new air raids on rebel Aleppo district, according to an NGO. A teenager and a woman were also among the victims.

For two days , the metropolis of the north of the country is bloody strikes by Air Force . The raids targeted in the morning Chaar neighborhood in the east of Aleppo, once economic capital of Syria , said the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights ( OSDH ) . ==> 



The army would use barrels filled with explosives

Sunday, December 15 , the Air Force conducted one of its most deadly raids, 76 people including 28 children killed in rebel areas east of Aleppo. Monday, at least 10 civilians, including four children, were also killed in new air raids.

According to the OSDH and activists , the military uses in its war against the insurgents of " explosive barrels " filled with TNT it dropped from helicopters and military aircraft. These barrels covered in a layer of concrete and filled with TNT " to a maximum of destruction and death " metal, according to the OSDH .

A Syrian security source denied the use of barrels , claiming AFP that " bombs were dropped on Aleppo " and that " all terrorist pockets would be attacked (...) mercilessly ." However, another security source said the army prefers to use these barrels instead of missiles, more expensive as imported from Russia .

"There is clearly an escalation of the regime in the bombing rebels in Aleppo neighborhoods to terrorize the inhabitants of these areas ," said AFP Rami Abdel Rahman , head of the OSDH . "Usually , this kind of intensive bombing over several days reflects the will of the army to advance " to rebel areas .

According to him, the majority of areas covered are in the eastern rebel-held and periphery controlled by the regime in Aleppo province , a central front in the war zones. Over the past two months, the army has managed to take over towns and cities east of Aleppo , moving a little closer to the eastern suburbs of the metropolis.

" The worst humanitarian crisis in decades "

Without a peace agreement , the UN expects that the number of Syrian refugees (2.4 million currently ) Double in 2014 and reaching 4.1 million. The conflict has claimed more than 126,000 dead in 33 months . As alarming figures that make Syria the greatest humanitarian challenge facing the UN is : it represents the population group most important need of humanitarian aid, followed by Yemen , Afghanistan, Sudan and Central . To help the victims of conflict, the UN agencies have called on the international community $ 6.5 billion for 2014 , a record amount for a single country.

The refugee burden weighs more on host countries neighboring Syria : UN says more than a third of the refugees in the region live in Lebanon, where one in five residents fled the war in Syria.

Meanwhile, half of the 23 million people living in Syria " food insecurity ," according to the World Food Programme (WFP) has announced plans to feed more than 7 million displaced persons and refugees . " This is the worst humanitarian crisis in decades ," said Muhannad Hadi , coordinator of emergency in Syria WFP assistance.

In this context, the price of bread has increased by over 500 % in two years in Syria , according to a study by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) , based in New York. " We are witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe that does not attract the attention of the world ," said the president of the IRC , David Miliband .