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Opposition Provides No Security Guarantees for Medical Evacuation from E Aleppo

© REUTERS / Ammar AbdullahDamaged Red Cross and Red Crescent medical supplies lie inside a warehouse after an airstrike on the rebel held Urm al-Kubra town, western Aleppo city, Syria September 20, 2016.
Damaged Red Cross and Red Crescent medical supplies lie inside a warehouse after an airstrike on the rebel held Urm al-Kubra town, western Aleppo city, Syria September 20, 2016. - Sputnik International
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According to a senior official at the International Committee of the Red Cross, Armed opposition groups have not provided security guarantees for medical evacuation from eastern parts of the Syrian city of Aleppo during the first humanitarian pause announced by Russia.

A general view shows a damaged road and abandoned buildings in Aleppo's militant-held Kalasa neighbourhood - Sputnik International
Evacuation of Medical Patients from Eastern Aleppo Fails - Red Cross
GENEVA (Sputnik) Armed opposition groups have not provided security guarantees for medical evacuation from eastern parts of the Syrian city of Aleppo during the first humanitarian pause announced by Russia, Robert Mardini, a senior official at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), told Sputnik.

"Last week, when the medical evacuations were discussed, we didn't get the security guarantees from the groups inside Eastern Aleppo," Mardini, the ICRC's regional director for the Middle East, said when asked which side did not provide the guarantees for medical evacuation.

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