Army Assault Leaves Bodies Strewn in Aleppo Streets

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The Syrian army's advance into rebel-held east Aleppo has deprived families of anywhere to hide and left shredded bodies of men, women and children strewn in the streets.

Previously, civilians in the eastern sector of the city could try to take shelter from air strikes inside buildings, but now sudden artillery fire can pound the streets without warning, mowing down all those in its path.

"It's really raining shells," said the AFP correspondent in the battered city.

On Wednesday, the correspondent witnessed a shell crashing onto a main road, ripping off a little girl's hand and piercing her head with shrapnel.

With east Aleppo's ambulances either destroyed or lacking fuel, no rescue services were available.

Two young men on a moped tried to whisk 10-year-old Mona away to safety, but her family later told AFP that she died of her serious injuries.

Two weeks into the all-out assault and after a months-long siege, pro-government forces have seized control of around 40 percent of what had been rebel-controlled east Aleppo since 2014.

After wave after wave of air strikes, the army is pounding rebel areas with intensive bombardment.

The crude barrel bombs dropped by helicopters at least gave those on the ground a chance to take cover once the aircraft were sighted.

The relentless artillery barrage has punched gaping holes in the walls of the apartment buildings still standing and torn down balconies.

The U.N.'s World Food Program spokeswoman Bettina Luescher on Wednesday described the plight of civilians in east Aleppo as a "slow motion descent into hell".

- 'Impossible to cross' -

Many civilians in the stricken areas, especially Shaar district, have been left with no escape route to government-controlled parts of Aleppo.

"The shelling doesn't stop. It's impossible to cross," said one group trying to flee with their few possessions.

Videos posted online Wednesday by Syrian Civil Defense rescue group and the opposition Aleppo Media Cent re show a blood-soaked street filled with corpses, human body parts and shoes.

A teenage boy appears, crying next to two bodies, one of them his mother who had been walking a few paces behind when the shell struck.

"The artillery hit a first time and we ran. That's when I saw my mother was dead," he says to the camera.

The teenager had been with his parents and a group of displaced persons seeking shelter in a government-controlled neighborhood of the divided city.

"We're leaving because of the injustice, the air strikes, the bombardments, the lack of food," says the distressed father, as the bodies are wrapped in orange plastic.

More than 50,000 terrified civilians have fled rebel-held areas in four days.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor, the battle launched on November 15 has killed more than 300 civilians in east Aleppo, including 33 children.

Comments 10
Thumb _mowaten_ 01 December 2016, 16:07

"Videos posted online Wednesday by Syrian Civil Defense".... or in other words, fabricated propaganda videos.

Thumb lubnani.masi7i 01 December 2016, 16:29

where do you live sub-human.... i will come and fabricate a video of your execution.

Thumb ex-fpm 01 December 2016, 16:36

Lubnani

there are no words to describe this sectarian filth who in every post spews sectarian puss and hatred and claims to be a progressive atheist. What he wishes is and will be wished upon him, his family, and his heretic wilayat al faqih.

Can you imagine what kind of family and children he is raising?!

Thumb liberty 02 December 2016, 04:33

the shia iranian knows they are fabricated sitting in his filthy dahieh basement apartment posting on naharnet 24 hours a day.

Thumb _mowaten_ 02 December 2016, 16:38

lol saudi.takfiri that's what you and your kind dream of doing, but as seen in syria and elsewhere, you are helpless impotent losers getting your noses smacked back down into the sewers you came from. zahhet ya sermeye.

Thumb Puppet 01 December 2016, 17:11

I respect Mr. Mowaten's video production abilities particularly in the use of special effects in Final Cut Pro 10.3.1 and Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017.

Thumb willy.pete222 01 December 2016, 17:18

Mowaten is the modern day version of Joseph Goebbels who said “ “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
if you don't know who I mean ...you should !
look it up

Thumb Southern...... 01 December 2016, 17:15

"... the opposition Aleppo Media Centre show a blood-soaked street filled with corpses, human body parts and shoes." :

but any sane person gives zero credibility to a terrorists's mouthpiece.

Thumb justin 01 December 2016, 18:55

some of the fabricated propaganda videos that mowaten was referring to:

صور الموت في حلب.. أرصفة اكتست بالجثث

يكفي أن تشاهد الصور الآتية من حلب الأربعاء، حتى تعتلي الدمعة طرف جفنك. يكفي أن تنظر لكل تلك الجثث التي التقطتها العدسات حتى يحتقن ضميرك غضباً. غضب من كل هذا العجز ومن كل ذلك الموت المنتشر أحمر على الأرصفة والطرقات.

http://www.alarabiya.net/ar/arab-and-world/syria/2016/12/01/إنه-الموت-في-حلب-أرصفة-اكتست-بالجثث.html

Thumb shab 01 December 2016, 20:06

It's very clear, they are all "terrorists".