UN hospitals deliberate attack “is a war crime” – Terra Colombia

The UN said that intentional attack medical facilities is a war crime under international humanitarian law, in reference to those recorded on Monday against hospitals in Syria.

The attacks registered on Monday against four hospitals in Syria, causing fifty deaths and condemnation of the international community, were rated on Tuesday (02/16/2016) United Nations as a crime of war.

“The intentional and direct attacks on medical facilities and places occupied by sick and wounded, as well as against medical units with the emblem of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, is a crime war in armed conflict, “the spokesman for the Office of Human Rights of the UN, Rupert Colville.

“It is still unclear who was intentional, but the huge number of these incidents raises questions about the failure of the parties to the conflict in Syria to respect the special protection required facilities physicians and their staff, “he added.

Germany, Russia and Turkey should reduce military activities in Syria

In the context of the Syrian war, the German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinemeier, today reminded Russia and Turkey the compromise in Munich for a ceasefire in Syria this week and urged them to reduce “clearly” military activities in the country.

“I hope that both Moscow and Ankara orient all military and political commitments Munich shares and before the final agreement for a ceasefire are reduced clearly military activities “he said in a statement the head of German diplomacy.

In his view, after the attacks registered yesterday against hospitals and schools it has become clear that “there is no alternative to the commitments of Munich,” where at dawn on Friday the International Group Support Syria involving the US, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia, he conjured for a truce within a week.

Steinmeier felt that with the dead in hospitals and schools “has become a hit bottom.” If there is no change, he warned, all efforts to improve access of civilians to humanitarian aid and to prepare the cessation of hostilities between the forces of the regime of Bashar al-Assad and the opposition will be in danger.

Allegations of Moscow

The Kremlin denied today that yesterday Russian aviation bombed a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in northern Syria and said the international coalition led by the United States as responsible for the attack.

“In this case we must look at what it says the primary source, which for us are the Syrian authorities,” he told reporters Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, alluding the words of the Syrian ambassador in Moscow Riad Haddad, who accused the international coalition of perpetrating the attack on the hospital.

The MSF hospital in Maarath to Nuaman “was actually destroyed by the Air Forces of the United States,” said yesterday the Syrian diplomat Russian television. Both international NGOs and the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights blamed Russia for the attack which caused at least seven dead and eight missing.