As Aleppo battle rages, citizens suffer from blockade, shelling
Dozens of civilians were killed and wounded in Aleppo after the cease-fire failed and regime forces launched a fierce campaign to recapture the opposition-held neighborhoods in the city.
![MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-REBELS People dig in the rubble in an ongoing search for survivors at a site hit previously by an airstrike in the rebel-held Tariq al-Bab neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, September 26, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail/File Photo - RTSQ0KN](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2016/09/RTSQ0KN.jpg/RTSQ0KN.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=ABfRMWP_)
ALEPPO — The Syrian regime’s military airplanes and helicopters are intensely shelling the neighborhoods in Aleppo under the Syrian opposition’s control. On Sept. 28, the warplanes targeted a bakery in al-Maadi neighborhood, east of Aleppo, while people were gathering to buy bread. As a result, six people were killed and five others were wounded.
Al-Halak, Baidin, al-Sakhour, Sheikh Khadr, Masakin Hanano, Sheikh Fares, al-Haydariyat and al-Shakif neighborhoods were shelled on Sept. 30. Seven people were killed and others wounded — as of the time of this writing — while some still remain stuck under the rubble as residential buildings have been destroyed. This scene has been recurring since Sept. 19.