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It was the first time in two years that the council agreed on a political statement on Syria, which French Deputy Ambassador Alexis Lamek described as “historic”.

Water cuts have been used before in the Syrian civil war, with Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and former commercial centre, most affected.

On Monday, the UN’s humanitarian chief fiercely condemned attacks against civilians in Syria at a press conference in Damascus.

O’Brien said unnamed armed groups, of which there are many in Syria, cut water supplies to Damascus’ population of five million, and to two million in Aleppo.

The Douma Civil Defense team of volunteer search and rescue workers has now documented 95 of the dead by name, a further five that couldn’t be identified and 11 bodies still stuck in the rubble, the group’s local media liaison officer Majid Khalaf told VICE News on Monday.