ICRC Describes Aleppo as ‘One of the Most Devastating Conflicts in Modern Times’

Aleppo, Syria in August, 2016 (Photo: International Committee of the Red Cross)

YEREVAN (ICRC) ””The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, has described the fight for the Syrian city of Aleppo as one of the most devastating conflicts in modern times. Fighting has been intensifying during the past weeks with hundreds of people killed and untold numbers injured. Public services have all but broken down. Tens of thousands are trapped and without aid, the ICRC reported.

“No one and nowhere is safe. Shell-fire is constant, with houses, schools and hospitals all in the line of fire. People live in a state of fear. Children have been traumatized. The scale of the suffering is immense. For four years, the people of Aleppo have been devastated by brutal war, and it is only getting worse for them. This is beyond doubt one of the most devastating urban conflicts in modern times,”