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Oh well. Still not as smart of a strategy as bombing the prayer schools, though.
SYRIAN AND RUSSIAN FORCES TARGETING HOSPITALS AS A STRATEGY OF WAR
https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-rel...rategy-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.
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.
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
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsand...ries-last-yearOn 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.
Oh well. Still not as smart of a strategy as bombing the prayer schools, though.
US/Saudi have been bombing elementary schools and mosques in Yemen for years
Russia needs to step u their game
Feel free to provide any link that shows evidence of a systemic deliberate targeting of hospitals by the US military.
Imperialism and the Logic Of Mass Destruction
In the cases of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, Washington has resorted to its familiar global modus operandi: sending off barrages of missiles and bombs, much of it hitting civilian populations and resources needed for their survival.
Death tolls mount, the largest numbers lately in the protracted battle for Mosul. Heavier casualties are being visited upon non-combatants in Yemen, thanks to U.S.-backed Saudi aerial savagery.
We have been told by the media that President Trump has apparently relaxed the rules of warfare, thus allowing civilians to be more easily victimized the midst of armed conflict. Innocent noncombatants are being made increasingly vulnerable to ravages of the largest and most aggressive war machine in history.
That, however, would be a serious misreading of the situation: Trump, like Obama, the Bushes, and Clinton before him, is simply operating within an historical pattern of imperial war making for which rules of engagement matter little, if at In fact Pentagon elites insist nothing has changed in their methods of warfare – and they are right. While the U.S. accuses, threatens, and attacks others for their (real or imputed) transgressions, its own apparatus of mass destruction continues with few legal or moral constraints.
In particular, Washington long ago turned aerial terrorism into a normalized mode of technowar that reduces civilians to dispensable objects.
In recent weeks U.S. aerial bombardments in Syria alone have reportedly killed several hundred people, mainly civilians.
Daily raids in Iraq, mostly targeting ISIS in Mosul, have accounted for more than 3000 civilian deaths, according to AirWars sources.
To believe this is a departure from the past – or that civilian casualties are simply an inevitable by-product of combat – is to ignore the American history of savage warfare, which since World War II has meant bringing horrendous death and destruction from the skies.all.
There is no deviation from the norm.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/...s-destruction/
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