EU calls for opening of humanitarian access to Aleppo

The EU calls for further efforts to open humanitarian access to the contested Syrian city of Aleppo and start evacuations of civilians.

"The EU calls again for an immediate humanitarian pause in fighting to ensure medical evacuations and the delivery of medicine, food and water from and into Eastern Aleppo and other besieged and hard-to-reach areas," the EU foreign affairs representative Federica Mogherini said.

The EU also calls on all parties to immediately halt any attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, in particular against medical facilities, schools, markets and internally displaced people camps; According to the EU statement, they "constitute new and grave violations of international humanitarian law".