Aleppo has become a 'ghost city' but, for how long?

(CNN)Monther Etaky had gotten used to the sound of barrel bombs dropping on Aleppo. The 28-year-old graphic designer even managed to sleep normally, but in recent days that's changed.
"The new missiles are so loud and horrifying," the father of a two-month-old boy tells CNN.

"The city is now a ghost city," he says. "There are only ambulances and fire trucks around and over the past three days the shelling has been horrible.
A Syrian man carries a baby after removing him from the rubble of a destroyed building.
A Syrian man carries a baby after removing him from the rubble of a destroyed building.
Over 200 air strikes hit the rebel-held city of Aleppo over the weekend, killing more than 100 people and injuring hundreds more, according to Ammar al-Selmo, the head of the Syria Civil Defense group, a volunteer emergency medical service.
On Sunday, top UN officials described the Syrianm regime's brutal offensive against areas of the besieged northern city of Aleppo as "barbaric."
Following the collapse of a short-lived, US and Russia-brokered ceasefire, Syrian forces pounded eastern Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 85 people and wounding more than 300 others, an activist group reported.
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Etaky's young son has been suffering with a fever but he says he has been unable to get him treatment with the city's resources brutally stretched.
Food has become hugely expensive. The graphic designer who married a year ago says his family rely on basics such as lentils, rice and eggplants, while the local council hands out bread.
He takes his son and wife with him to buy food such is his fear that they will be shelled in the house.
Medical organizations are fully stretched and options are running out fast.
"The hospitals are all full and the doctors are all busy," he said. "There's no milk for the children."
Aid arrives to four towns
On Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed it had managed to deliver aid to four towns caught up in the conflict.
According to the ICRC, 71 trucks reached rebel-held Madaya and Zabadani, near Damascus, and government-controlled Foah and Kefraya, in Idlib province.