UN calls for ceasefire 48 hours a grave situation in Aleppo.

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Beirut / DAMASCUS United Nations on Tuesday called again a ceasefire of 48 hours for embattled Aleppo, in northern Syria, so as to provide humanitarian aid, while other agencies such as UNICEF and WHO denounced the catastófica situation in the city.

The coordinator of emergency aid from the UN, Stephen O'Brien, said during a meeting of the Security Council in New York that the staff of aid organizations do not have access to the city due to poor security conditions, highlighted DPA.

"They are brave, but do not want to commit suicide. We must ensure their safety," he said.

Russia's ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, said his country and the United States are currently discussing about a plan to regularly bring aid through the "Castello" route, in northern Aleppo.

The situation of people in eastern Aleppo is "grotesque" and also worsens in the west of the city, said the US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, who added that the peace talks should be resumed as soon as possible. "It can not be bigger what is in play politically."

For its part, the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF) reported Tuesday that the ongoing fighting in Aleppo have left two million people without water.

Attacks a week ago stopped pumping water, said the organization. The whole city was four days without water. "This limitation in the midst of a heat wave exposes children to a high risk of disease," said UNICEF representative for Syria, Hanaa Singer.

Can not wait for an end to the bombing he said. "The lives of children are seriously at risk."

Meanwhile, the spokesman for the World Health Organization (WHO), Tarik Jasarevic, later denounced in Geneva that attacks on hospitals in Aleppo hinder further medical supplies in the city.

Only on July 10 attacks on healthcare facilities were recorded, he recalled the spokesman.

In the east of the city, under insurgent control, they can no longer serve or work part eight of the ten hospitals and 13 ambulatory 28.

Meanwhile, following the escape or death of physicians across the east of Aleppo, just 35 doctors serve. Their chances of attending the sick and wounded are well below the needs.

According to humanitarian organizations, attacks on hospital facilities and medical centers in Syria have long since become a tactic of war. Humanitarian law prohibits such attacks, which are classified as war crimes.

Syrian regime forces regained ground in Aleppo Tuesday, threatening to cut a path through the rebels eastern sector of the city.

Government troops and allied militiamen recovered firing positions on the route passing through the Ramousseh district of the city, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said the rebel route had not been recaptured by the regime, but government forces and allied militia advanced with the help of intense airstrikes.

The breakthrough came one day after the Syrian government and its ally, the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah sent thousands of reinforcements for a counterattack on Aleppo after rebels broke the lines of the Government two days earlier.

Syrian agency SANA state news videos showed government aircraft carrying out what he described as "intense attacks" on "terrorist movements" south of Aleppo.

Once the largest city in Syria before the war, Aleppo has been divided between government forces in the west and rebels in the east since the fighting began in the city in mid-2012.

Last month, the rebels captured the last rebel supply route east, raising fears that some 250,000 to 300,000 civilians remain fenced.

Meanwhile, in northeastern Syria, at least 15 people, including three children, were killed in airstrikes on a village near the town of Deir al Zour, controlled by the self-styled Islamic State (ISIS).

Moreover, the forces led by the Kurds in northern Syria claim to have captured the center of the city of Manbij, which was held by the ISIS.

The jihadists are still hiding in the northern district of the city and are using civilians as "human shields," said Shervan Darwish, spokesman for the military council of Manbij.

Led forces Kurds began in late May capture Manbij supported from the air by US bombers.

Its aim is to cut the ISIS their last road to the Turkish border and the outside world and prevent them to get supplies to fighters in other territories in Syria and Iraq.