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BBC: Syria war – UN rebukes Russia and Iran over evacuations

By BBC.

Published Dec. 7, 2017 at 9:29 pm

A Syrian boy pushes a bicycle down a street amidst the destruction following reported shelling by Syrian government forces, in the rebel-held town of Douma in Syria's eastern Ghouta region, on November 17, 2017.Shelling by the Syrian regime on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, which has been besieged since 2013 and where humanitarian conditions are dire, killed at least 10 civilians, among them six children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The deaths were the result of the latest bout in an escalating cycle of tit-for-tat attacks between regime forces and the rebels holding the enclave on the Syrian capital's eastern outskirts. / AFP PHOTO / Hamza Al-Ajweh

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The UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Syria has rebuked Russia and Iran for not doing more to give aid agencies access to a besieged rebel enclave.

Jan Egeland told the BBC the failure to persuade the Syrian government, their ally, to allow desperately ill children to be evacuated from the Eastern Ghouta showed “complete impotence”.