Inside Afrin, the true victims of Turkey's invasion of northern Syria are revealed - refugees, babie
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UN: Airstrikes on Syria Hospitals Affect Hundreds of Thousands of People
January 30, 2018 7:20 PM
Smoke rises in a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in the town of Saraqib, in Idlib province, Syria, Jan. 9, 2016.
GENEVA —
The United Nations on Tuesday condemned a recent wave of airstrikes on medical centers in rebel-held parts of Syria including one that put a hospital serving 50,000 people out of action.
The Syrian government, which is backed by Russian air power in its almost seven-year-long war with rebels, says it only targets militants and has repeatedly denied striking civilian facilities such as hospitals.
"I am appalled by the ongoing attacks on hospitals and other medical facilities in northwestern Syria, depriving hundreds of thousands of people of their basic right to health," said Panos Moumtzis, U.N. regional coordinator for the Syria crisis.
Syria's war shows no sign of ending and a peace conference hosted by Russia on Tuesday was marred by discord.
On Monday, two airstrikes damaged the 18-bed Owdai Hospital in Saraqib city in rebel-held Idlib governorate supported by the aid charity Médecins Sans Frontières, killing at least five people, including a child, and injuring six.
The hospital, which experienced a near miss that blew out windows on Jan. 21, was hit while receiving people wounded in an airstrike on Saraqib's main market, which the United Nations said had killed at least 16 people.
It was the fourth time in 10 days that airstrikes had caused major structural damage to a hospital in Saraqib, said Moumtzis. An air attack also wrecked a medical center serving at least 10,000 people in Aleppo governorate on the same day.
"The loss of the provision of these medical services, including surgical and reproductive health services, will have a staggering effect on vulnerable communities affected by this conflict," he said in a statement.
In 2017, there were 112 verified attacks on health facilities in Syria, and there had been at least 13 so far this year, according to Moumtzis.
A separate U.N. report said 272,345 people had been displaced between Dec. 15 and Jan. 24 in Idlib governorate, and health organizations there were being stretched to the limit.
It described heavy fighting between rebels and Syrian government forces in the eastern part of the governorate, mainly around the town of Abul Thohur and its air base, with numerous civilian casualties and "high levels of psychosocial distress among girls, boys, women and men."
Saraqib's town council has declared a disaster zone and called on the international community to intervene, the U.N. report said.
I think there are Turks here at PDF who would do a better job representing their country's actions and mind-set than current government spokesmen - @Sinan often comes to mind. But after the repeated beat-ups of protesters in foreign countries by Erdogan's thugs I've concluded that the current government doesn't care about such things.
January 30, 2018 7:20 PM
Smoke rises in a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in the town of Saraqib, in Idlib province, Syria, Jan. 9, 2016.
GENEVA —
The United Nations on Tuesday condemned a recent wave of airstrikes on medical centers in rebel-held parts of Syria including one that put a hospital serving 50,000 people out of action.
The Syrian government, which is backed by Russian air power in its almost seven-year-long war with rebels, says it only targets militants and has repeatedly denied striking civilian facilities such as hospitals.
"I am appalled by the ongoing attacks on hospitals and other medical facilities in northwestern Syria, depriving hundreds of thousands of people of their basic right to health," said Panos Moumtzis, U.N. regional coordinator for the Syria crisis.
Syria's war shows no sign of ending and a peace conference hosted by Russia on Tuesday was marred by discord.
On Monday, two airstrikes damaged the 18-bed Owdai Hospital in Saraqib city in rebel-held Idlib governorate supported by the aid charity Médecins Sans Frontières, killing at least five people, including a child, and injuring six.
The hospital, which experienced a near miss that blew out windows on Jan. 21, was hit while receiving people wounded in an airstrike on Saraqib's main market, which the United Nations said had killed at least 16 people.
It was the fourth time in 10 days that airstrikes had caused major structural damage to a hospital in Saraqib, said Moumtzis. An air attack also wrecked a medical center serving at least 10,000 people in Aleppo governorate on the same day.
"The loss of the provision of these medical services, including surgical and reproductive health services, will have a staggering effect on vulnerable communities affected by this conflict," he said in a statement.
In 2017, there were 112 verified attacks on health facilities in Syria, and there had been at least 13 so far this year, according to Moumtzis.
A separate U.N. report said 272,345 people had been displaced between Dec. 15 and Jan. 24 in Idlib governorate, and health organizations there were being stretched to the limit.
It described heavy fighting between rebels and Syrian government forces in the eastern part of the governorate, mainly around the town of Abul Thohur and its air base, with numerous civilian casualties and "high levels of psychosocial distress among girls, boys, women and men."
Saraqib's town council has declared a disaster zone and called on the international community to intervene, the U.N. report said.
Maybe you have a point, I'm not sure. The reasons I write this are that the Turkish military closely controls press coverage in its areas of operations (both inside and outside Turkey), that the current Turkish gov't has demonstrated it favors arresting journalists on small or no pretext resulting in long jail times before courts dismiss charges, and - I don't think enough Turks appreciate this - that the language barrier hobbles Western journalists from following up on Turkish-language media reports and some of the finer bits about Turkey's army and legal system.
I think there are Turks here at PDF who would do a better job representing their country's actions and mind-set than current government spokesmen - @Sinan often comes to mind. But after the repeated beat-ups of protesters in foreign countries by Erdogan's thugs I've concluded that the current government doesn't care about such things.
Hardly. The OP report is by Robert Fisk, the journalist whose wildly skewed reporting on the Israeli-Arab conflict and the War on Terror turned his name into a verb.
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So guys correct me if i am wrong. Turkey is fighing with kurdish militia on its eastern border which has the back of america and in doing so civilians of both sides are being killed. Is that right ?
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