At least 25,000 people have been moved out of Aleppo since evacuations began last week, the ICRC has said. The Syrian government has also allowed additional UN staff to monitor the rest of the evacuations.
Ingy Sedky, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said on Tuesday that “[y]esterday (Monday) only, we evacuated 15,000 people from east Aleppo. If we consider those evacuated on Thursday too, then the total should be 25,000.”
That figure was also provided by the ICRC’s Mideast regional chief, Robert Mardini, on Twitter.
However Sedky also conceded that the “evacuations (are) not over yet” and that there are “still thousands remaining” in bombed-out areas of the city as they wait to be bussed out.