I am appalled by the entirely preventable humanitarian catastrophe taking place in eastern Aleppo.
As you know, the last functioning hospital has now been put out of action. Humanitarian access has been deliberately blocked by the regime and its allies including Russia for five months now, leading to the 275,000 civilians in eastern Aleppo facing imminent starvation. Across the rest of Syria, there has been almost no progress in delivering the UN humanitarian plan for November. The latest UN plan to deliver humanitarian aid was agreed by armed opposition groups recently, but the regime is still blocking it. This is just the latest of many failed efforts.
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