Local residents in one area of Aleppo recaptured by pro-government forces have accused rebels of depriving them of aid meant for civilians.<br /><br /> They say they found food and other supplies in a school which Jaish al-Islam used as its headquarters in the district of al-Kalasa. The Saudi-backed group withdrew following the Syrian army’s advance.<br /><br /> “They forbade us everything. There is no milk, there is no cooking, there is no meat, neither are there any lemons. They forbade us everything,” said Hanan al Salem, a local woman who went into the abandoned building after the rebels’ departure.<br /><br /> “They kept all these items here and there,” added another resident, Amer Saleem, as he pointed out different parts of the building. “They did not allow us to eat even a piece of bread. We died out of hunger and on many nights we went to sleep hungry.” <br /><br /> Other civilians complained of soaring prices of basic goods – a kilo of sugar costing the equivalent of 16 US dollars – due to their scarcity.<br /><br /> The rapid collapse among rebels opposed to pro-government forces has been partly attributed to rival opposition groups fighting each other.<br /><br /> Jaish al-Islam has been accused of committing atrocities against civilians and has been designated a terrorist group by Damascus and Moscow.<br /><br /> The al-Kalasa district is one of four neighbourhoods in which pro-government forces have been accused of deliberately shooting dead civilians, according to the United Nations human rights office.<br /><br /> Who is controlling where in #Aleppo?https://t.co/YHNEBpZ3im pic.twitter.com/B3WAmH0X6r— euronews (@euronews) December 14, 2016<br />
