PHOTO:< A young victim in eastern Aleppo city

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UPDATE 1330 GMT: State media claims seven schoolchildren and a woman were killed in rocketing by rebels on western Aleppo city.

Syrian State news agency SANA said 32 people, including 20 schoolchildren, were injured.

Seven students were killed and a teacher and 19 others were critically injured when a mortar shell fell on the al-Furqan School for basic education, according to SANA.

The source added that the mortar shell fell inside a classroom, killing seven students and injuring a female teacher and 19 others, all of them in critical condition.

The site also reported rocketing of the Faculty of Law, al-Basel Hospital for Cardiac Surgery, and Fawzi al-Jesri School in the al-Shahbaa neighborhood, killing a woman and injuring 10 people.

UPDATE 0830 GMT: Witnesses claim that four children have been killed this morning in a chlorine attack by pro-Assad forces on the Sakhour district in Aleppo city.

Rescuers says the children’s father and mother and 25 other people have been injured.

The person filming the bodies of the children spoke of the use of chemical weapons (Warning — Graphic Images):

The White Helmets are also reporting an attack on a school near Damascus, with multiple casualties:

ORIGINAL ENTRY: After intensive bombing killing hundreds of civilians, pro-Assad forces are trying to enter parts of besieged opposition-held areas of Syria’s largest city Aleppo.

Reports on Sunday morning indicate foreign militias and regime paramilitary units have moved into the Hanano district, following airstrikes that included the use of chlorine. The Aqrab area, near Rashidin, may also have fallen.

Airstrikes and shelling on Saturday killed another 81 people, bringing the total to 157 in two days, in and near Aleppo. At least 11 areas were struck.

Between midnight and 11 am alone, there were more than 2000 artillery attacks and 250 air raids, according to White Helmets rescuers. The Health Directorate and the World Health Organization reported that, after repeated strikes on medical facilities, all hospitals are not out of service in eastern Aleppo city.

“This destruction of infrastructure essential to life leaves the besieged, resolute people, including all children and elderly men and women, without any health facilities offering life-saving treatment…leaving them to die,” said the Health Directorate.

Russia and the Assad regime renewed the aerial assault last Tuesday on the neighborhoods, under siege since late August, after a month-long pause. The latest deaths add to more than 600 civilians killed in bombing between September 19 and October 18.

See Syria Daily, Nov 19: 150+ Killed in Aleppo in Past 48 Hours

Aftermath of one of Saturday’s strikes:

Graphic footage of one of the attacked hospitals:

Turkish Soldier Killed by Islamic State near al-Bab

Turkish “security sources” say a Turkish soldier was killed and two others wounded by an Islamic State bomb, as a Turkish-rebel offensive closed on the ISIS-held town of al-Bab.

The three soldiers were evacuated by helicopter on Saturday and taken to the southern Turkish town of Gaziantep, but one of them died from injuries, the sources said.

Turkish-supported rebels announced an offensive earlier this month to take al-Bab, the Islamic State’s last major position in Aleppo Province. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said last week that the offensive is just 2 km (1.25 miles) from the town.