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An aid convoy carrying life-saving aid to 78,000 people was attacked near the Syrian city of Aleppo Monday, the United Nations and aid organizations said.

Officials from the UN and US said they were disgusted and outraged by the incident, which according to the UN saw 18 of the 31 trucks in an aid convoy hit.

Twelve people involved in the aid delivery were killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based organization that monitors the conflict in Syria.

The United Nations has suspended aid operations in Syria after a deadly attack on an aid convoy in rural Aleppo on Monday night.

Getting aid to areas cut off by fighting has been a growing concern for humanitarian agencies with trucks destined for eastern Aleppo, where an estimated 250,000 civilians have been short of food, medicine and water, prevented from getting through.

At the moment the aid operation remains suspended while we assess and reevaluate the situation on the ground.

The Syrian Civil Defense, a volunteer EMS service, posted video of the aftermath of the attack on social media claiming that aircraft had dropped four barrel bombs on the site of a Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) aid warehouse, blaming the Syrian regime for the attacks.

Stephen O'Brien, the head of the UN's relief organization, said he was disgusted by the reports and said if it's discovered that aid workers were deliberately targeted, that the strike would amount to a war crime.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks and it is unclear whether the convoy was hit by an airstrike or shelled.

The UN and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), however, confirmed that the SARC warehouse had been struck. The convoy and the warehouse were both in the area of Urum al-Kubra, a reportedly rebel-held town west of Aleppo city.

Omar Barakat the SARC's director in Urum al-Kubra was killed at the warehouse.

The SOHR said at least 32 people in total were killed in separate attacks in Aleppo and its western suburbs on Monday.

The violence came just hours after Syrian authorities declared that a fragile ceasefire in the war-torn country was over.