UN warns Aleppo risks 'catastrophe,' urges 48-hour truce
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The UN humanitarian chief on Monday urged all combatants in Aleppo to agree to a 48-hour pause to allow delivery of desperately needed aid, warning that otherwise the world risks seeing a "humanitarian catastrophe unparalleled in the over five years of bloodshed" in Syria.
Stephen O'Brien said Aleppo is being bombed every day, including a dozen new attacks on Monday, and has become "the apex of horror" in "the greatest crisis of our time."
He told the UN Security Council, which has been deeply divided over Syria, that "you have the power with a pen - a simple pen stroke - to allow food to people."
