RandomGuy
05-03-2017, 12:28 PM
SYRIAN AND RUSSIAN FORCES TARGETING HOSPITALS AS A STRATEGY OF WAR
Russian and Syrian government forces appear to have deliberately and systematically targeted hospitals and other medical facilities over the last three months to pave the way for ground forces to advance on northern Aleppo, an examination of airstrikes by Amnesty International has found.
Even as Syria’s fragile ceasefire deal was being hammered out, Syrian government forces and their allies intensified their attacks on medical facilities.
“Syrian and Russian forces have been deliberately attacking health facilities in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. But what is truly egregious is that wiping out hospitals appears to have become part of their military strategy,” said Tirana Hassan, Crisis Response Director at Amnesty International.
Syrian and Russian forces have been deliberately attacking health facilities [as] part of their military strategy.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-releases/2016/03/syrian-and-russian-forces-targeting-hospitals-as-a-strategy-of-war/
More solid data has come out on this fairly recently:
Syria Hospital Airstrike: Are The Rules Of War Breaking Down?
The al-Quds hospital in Aleppo, Syria, is the latest health care facility to get blown apart.
The 34-bed hospital was tucked into the lower floors of a five-story building in the Sukkari neighborhood of Aleppo. Sandbags blocked the windows and fortified the entrance. Concrete apartment buildings pressed on either side of it. Late Wednesday night, witnesses say, a low-flying fighter jet unleashed a missile that smashed directly into the hospital.
The airstrike killed at least 27 people, including Dr. Mohammed Wassim Moaz, a pediatrician who continued to work in Aleppo even as the Syrian civil war raged around him.
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2016/04/28/aleppo_hospital_custom-c4845a8ed0e43a34a4897dd54da4d58888b22e6b-s800-c85.jpg
The evidence has been mounting for years, and it is very obvious this is not a few cases of bad targeting. One or two you can ascribe, but the pattern is fairly clear.
Report: Health Workers Attacked In 23 Countries Last Year
On November 18 last year, as fighter jets roared overhead, explosions ripped through the Omar bin Abdul Aziz Hospital in Aleppo Syria.
The airstrikes destroyed the last operating hospital in the eastern part of the city. This wasn't a rare event. Three other hospitals in Aleppo were bombed on that day, too.
These bombings occurred despite the fact that attacking a medical clinic is a war crime under international law.
Leonard Rubenstein. a lawyer who directs a program on human rights, health and conflict at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins. says there were a staggering number of assaults on health care facilities in 2016.
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/05/03/526601059/report-health-workers-attacked-in-23-countries-last-year
Russian and Syrian government forces appear to have deliberately and systematically targeted hospitals and other medical facilities over the last three months to pave the way for ground forces to advance on northern Aleppo, an examination of airstrikes by Amnesty International has found.
Even as Syria’s fragile ceasefire deal was being hammered out, Syrian government forces and their allies intensified their attacks on medical facilities.
“Syrian and Russian forces have been deliberately attacking health facilities in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. But what is truly egregious is that wiping out hospitals appears to have become part of their military strategy,” said Tirana Hassan, Crisis Response Director at Amnesty International.
Syrian and Russian forces have been deliberately attacking health facilities [as] part of their military strategy.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-releases/2016/03/syrian-and-russian-forces-targeting-hospitals-as-a-strategy-of-war/
More solid data has come out on this fairly recently:
Syria Hospital Airstrike: Are The Rules Of War Breaking Down?
The al-Quds hospital in Aleppo, Syria, is the latest health care facility to get blown apart.
The 34-bed hospital was tucked into the lower floors of a five-story building in the Sukkari neighborhood of Aleppo. Sandbags blocked the windows and fortified the entrance. Concrete apartment buildings pressed on either side of it. Late Wednesday night, witnesses say, a low-flying fighter jet unleashed a missile that smashed directly into the hospital.
The airstrike killed at least 27 people, including Dr. Mohammed Wassim Moaz, a pediatrician who continued to work in Aleppo even as the Syrian civil war raged around him.
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2016/04/28/aleppo_hospital_custom-c4845a8ed0e43a34a4897dd54da4d58888b22e6b-s800-c85.jpg
The evidence has been mounting for years, and it is very obvious this is not a few cases of bad targeting. One or two you can ascribe, but the pattern is fairly clear.
Report: Health Workers Attacked In 23 Countries Last Year
On November 18 last year, as fighter jets roared overhead, explosions ripped through the Omar bin Abdul Aziz Hospital in Aleppo Syria.
The airstrikes destroyed the last operating hospital in the eastern part of the city. This wasn't a rare event. Three other hospitals in Aleppo were bombed on that day, too.
These bombings occurred despite the fact that attacking a medical clinic is a war crime under international law.
Leonard Rubenstein. a lawyer who directs a program on human rights, health and conflict at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins. says there were a staggering number of assaults on health care facilities in 2016.
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/05/03/526601059/report-health-workers-attacked-in-23-countries-last-year