More than 100 killed while seeking aid in Gaza, overall death toll passes 30,000
Reuters / A Free Syrian Army tank fires southwest of Aleppo
The United Nations said on Tuesday it had suspended all humanitarian aid convoys in Syria after a deadly air raid hit trucks delivering aid near Aleppo.
A Red Crescent staff member and civilians were killed in the attack.
As an “immediate security measure, other convoy movements in Syria have been suspended”, Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN humanitaria¥n agency, told reporters in Geneva.
Red Cross spokesman Benoit Carpentier said the director of the Syrian Red Crescent’s sub-branch was among those killed in the attack.
But the Red Cross said that the overall toll may be lower than at first feared.
“For now that is all we can confirm, the director of the sub-branch who has been killed,” Carpentier said.
Asked whether at least a dozen volunteers had been killed, he said: “It could be less.”
At least 18 of the 31 trucks in the convoy were destroyed, as well as a health clinic, he said.
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