By Ruth Gledhill
Christian Today
Aleppo has become a "living hell" according to one of the most senior Christian leaders still in the besieged city in Syria.
Mgr Georges Abou Khazen, Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo, called for an instant ceasefire.
Speaking in the wake of the deaths of yet more children this week and last week in the relentless airstrikes, Khazen said: "Aleppo is now a living hell - a hell that touches everyone, east and west, full of death and destruction, refugees and lack of electricity and water, families who touch pain with their hands on a daily basis".
He said world powers must take responsibility and make "the logic of peace" a priority.
The latest deaths came in an airstrike which devastated a school in the predominantly Christian district of al-Sulaymaniyah. According to the Syrian state news agency SANA, the school was targeted in a "terrorist" attack, the term the regime uses for rebels.
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Air strikes targeting rebel-held districts of Aleppo also intensified after a lull of several days which the Syrian army said was designed to allow civilians to leave.
Khazen told Asia News: "We do not want all these deaths, this destruction. Everyone here is suffering. Families in both east and west continue to count and mourn their dead."
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