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2019-07-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria regime air strikes hit hospital, kills seven civilians
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Regime air strikes on an opposition bastion in northwestern Syria on Wednesday killed seven civilians including children and knocked a hospital out of service, a monitor and a doctor said.
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The raids are the latest in an uptick in government and Russian bombardment since late April on the holy warrior-administered region of Idlib despite a months-old truce deal.

Three civilians died after the hospital was hit, while four were killed elsewhere in the town, said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.

Rescue workers known as the White Helmets said missiles targeted the hospital and residential neighborhoods in Jisr al-Shughur.

A doctor there said the health facility had been knocked out of service after the generators were hit, and the maimed had been transferred to another hospital for treatment.

"We have no more generators to operate the hospital. It’s the only one for Jisr al-Shughur and neighboring villages," Bassam al-Khattab told AFP.

An AFP correspondent saw three destroyed generators and a damaged ambulance covered in debris.

Idlib, home to some three million people, has since January been administered by Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
But other holy warrior and rebel groups are also present in the area.

More than 550 civilians have been killed in regime and Russian air strikes on northwest Syria since the end of April, the Observatory says.

The United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
says 25 health facilities in the region have been hit.

Syria’s war has killed more than 370,000 people and displaced millions since it started in 2011 with a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests.

Posted by Fred 2019-07-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top
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