Aleppans seek help to avoid inevitable death

The residents of the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, who have been under heavy attacks of Iran and the Russia-supported Bashar al-Assad regime of Syria, are now facing a death risk due to starvation and epidemic illness, as victims of the attacks cannot reach food, water or medicine properly.

The residents who used to live at moderate opposition-controlled areas moved to the regime-controlled areas due to the violent attack on the opposition-held neighborhoods.

An Aleppo resident, Muhammad Khalefah, said that Aleppo was witnessing unprecedented destruction.

"Such destruction hasn't been seen throughout history. We are targeted by brutal attacks and cannot have medical treatment and rescue somebody from the wreckage," Khalefah said.

In the last 22 days, the total number of the civilian fatalities reached 889.

However, the civilians who stuck in Aleppo are facing major desperation, as they cannot bury their killed relatives due to the continuous attacks launched by the Assad regime.

"Doctors are calling for logistic support to treat the wounded. We don't even have a place to bury the dead. Thousands of people are stuck in a very narrow area," a resident said.

“The families cannot bid farewell to their relatives, as they are buried at the spot where they are killed, due to the brutal attacks," said the resident.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said late Thursday that the regime forces suspended its military operations in the northwestern city of Aleppo.

Lavrov's remarks came on the sidelines of an annual meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Hamburg, Germany.

"Today, the operations in the eastern part of Aleppo were suspended for the evacuation of the civilians," Lavrov said. "This is the largest operation conducted for evacuation of the civilians until now. It's a convoy of 8,000 people, five kilometers long."

Located approximately 40 kilometers from the Turkish border, Aleppo is Syria's second largest city after the capital, Damascus.

Around 300,000 civilians residing in Aleppo are facing death threats due to the airstrikes targeting the opposition-controlled neighborhoods of the city.

However, more than 10 percentage of the total residents are now facing PKK/PYD threats, as they remain in the parts that the terrorist organization occupies.

Russia and the Assad regime are known to bomb Aleppo, the Syrian province located 50 kilometers from Turkey, as a part of terrorist organizations' and Assad's target to control northern Syria by taking the land from the moderate opposition.

The civil war in Syria has killed more than 250,000 people, according to the United Nations. The Syrian Center for Policy Research has put the total death toll from conflict at more than 470,000.