Nurse trapped in Aleppo basement: ‘If this hospital falls, please no pictures of our bodies in the rubble’

Residents in east of the city say they are experiencing the worst bombing campaign of the war. More than 350 people were killed in Syrian and Russian air strikes since the ceasefire collapsed last week.“It could only have been deliberate,” said Adham Sahloul of the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) who is based in Turkey. He said government forces know the location of both facilities, which are referred to using codenames.“There are now only 30 doctors and six hospitals left to treat the some 300,000 residents,” he told the Telegraph.Rights groups have accused Syrian and Russian forces of deliberately targeting medical facilities, with Amnesty International earlier this year accusing the allies of “wiping out hospitals as part of their military strategy.”Most of the hospitals have moved into basements to protect against strikes, but Russian warplanes last week began dropping so-called bunker-buster bombs, which can penetrate deep underground and level entire buildings.Mr Sahloul warned of devastating medical consequences if violence spiked again while the hospitals remain closed.“With these two hospitals gone, if today there is another offensive like Saturday or Sunday, this is signing the death warrant for hundreds of people,” he said. “They are in areas that are hit quite often and are densely populated, so this is going to be a problem.”Pleas from the World Health Organisation for a humanitarian corridor to transport the injured out of east Aleppo, which is blockaded on all sides by government forces, have been ignored.A few streets away from M2 in the al-Maadi neighbourhood, at least six people were killed by artillery shelling while they queued for bread at the bakery.Syrian government forces are pushing into rebel-held areas after launching a campaign to retake the whole city.