MP Abdel Rehim Ali has slammed positions of the Egyptian Parliament, the Arab League (AL) and the Arab Parliament (AP) towards massacres between rival factions in Syria, calling for "the" warring factions to cease all military operations and mutual shelling in the Syrian city of Aleppo, which left hundreds of victims killed and wounded. "I still believe that the use of armed violence will not lead to resolving the Syrian crisis, which lasted nearly for five years, and that Syria has smart minds who can reach a political solution on the basis of the principle of territorial integrity," Ali said in a statement on Friday. He added that the language of weapons and allowing the interference of regional countries in the crisis has brought Syria to the case of displacement of about six million citizens and the destruction of more than 70 percent of Syrian cities. The last week's shelling in Aleppo has killed about 34 children and 20 women, in addition to the demolition of hundreds of homes and the displacement of thousands, in the worst military operations taking place in Syria since the start of the crisis, the statement added. "We have conducted a series of contacts to know the situation there, and I am appalled by the outcomes not only in Aleppo, but in the whole Syrian territories as well," the statement read.
