UN chief has issued a desperate plea to Syrian regime to allow 500 severely ill and starving people to leave a besieged region on the outskirts of Damascus, as Assad’s regime has broken a truce agreed late last week between rebels in Eastern Ghouta and the regime’s militias by shelling civilians.
Jan Egeland said there had been nine deaths so far among those waiting for permission to leave the Eastern Ghouta.
Dozens of civilians are also reported to have been killed in recent air and artillery attacks by government forces, though a ceasefire is now in place.
Food shortages have meanwhile led to many cases of severe malnutrition.
The appeal came as government and opposition delegations arrived at a UN complex in Geneva for the latest round of talks aimed at finding a political solution to the civil war, which has left more than 340,000 people dead since 2011.
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