Syrian government buses Sunday entered the last opposition enclave in eastern Aleppo to restart the evacuation of rebel fighters and civilians, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported.
The evacuees will be transported to the rebel-held western Aleppo countryside in an operation supervised by the Red Cross and the Syrian Red Crescent, the agency added.
The new evacuation comes after the operation was halted on Friday in a dispute over allowing residents of two pro-regime villages besieged by rebels to leave.
Buses and ambulances arrived Sunday into the villages of Foua and Kefraya in Syria's north-western province of Idlib in preparation to evacuate the wounded and sick, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said.
Around 4,000 people, including the sick, will leave from the two villages in groups, the Observatory added.
The evacuations come as the UN Security Council is to discuss the possible deployment of observers to the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo Sunday.
The Council is to meet for a special session at 1200 GMT, several UN delegations said on Twitter.
Whether the French initiative will receive approval by the Security Council remains unclear. Russia, a key backer of the Syrian government, has opposed the measure.
Evacuations from eastern Aleppo started Thursday under a Russian-Turkish deal, allowing more than 8,000 people to leave, according to Syrian state media.
Thousands are still trapped inside eastern Aleppo, which has been besieged by government forces since July, according to aid groups.
Aleppo, a bitterly divided flashpoint in Syria's civil war, has been reduced to rubble by airstrikes, shelling and a government siege to drive out opposition rebel groups.
