A man rides a bicycle near damaged buildings in the rebel held besieged al-Sukkari neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria October 19, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail
Geneva: The United Nations said it hopes to carry out the first medical evacuations from eastern Aleppo on Friday after it got clearance from all warring parties in the devastated Syrian city.
"We believe we now have all of the green lights that we need," the head of the UN's humanitarian taskforce for Syria, Jan Egeland, told journalists Thursday, as a humanitarian pause in rebel-controlled east Aleppo broadly held.
"We hope that the first medical evacuations can take place tomorrow," Egeland added.
