Syrian rebels on Wednesday managed to bring food into eastern Aleppo for the first time since government forces cut off supply routes to the opposition enclave last month, a monitoring group said.
Vehicles loaded with food entered through a breach rebels had made four days earlier in government lines on the city's southwestern perimeter, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The rebels had built up earth barriers around the route, enabling them to secure the convoy even though government forces had on Tuesday won back ground and advanced to firing positions over it, the Observatory reported.
"Tomatoes are here after one month of absence," Aleppo-based activist Yassin Abu Raed posted on his Facebook page, along with pictures of small trucks carrying mainly fresh vegetables.
Last month government forces captured the last remaining rebel supply route into the east, known as Castello Road, raising fears that some 250,000 to 300,000 civilians there would come under siege.
The United Nations warned that food supplies in eastern Aleppo were likely to run out by mid-August.
