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Ginebra.-The United Nations said today that the deliberate targeting of medical facilities is a war crime under international humanitarian law, in reference to those recorded on Monday against four hospitals in Syria and caused fifty dead.
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 Red Crescent, is a war crime in an armed conflict, “the spokesman for the Human Rights Office of the UN, Rupert Colville.
it is still unclear who has been intentional, but the enormous number of these incidents raises questions about the failure of the parties to the conflict in Syria to respect the special protection required by physicians and their staff establishments, “he said.
Although he said he can not point with certainty the Syrian or Russian aircraft, the spokesman said that “it is clear that Syrian and Russian aircraft are very active and we ask those who throw bombs from the sky to be more careful because the number of attacks on civilians is astronomical.”
all the rules and standards of conduct in a war in Syria have been raped … everything you can imagine has been broken, “complained Colville.
the attacks on hospitals in Syria began in 2012 , one year after the popular uprising against Bashar Al Assad, who months later became a civil war.
in the period of armed conflict, it has been reported that 640 doctors, nurses and other health workers were killed , while 58 percent of hospitals and 49 percent of primary health centers in the country have closed or partially work.
Colville said that since November an increase, with nine cases in total is observed, and hygiene of attacks not only by aerial bombardment, but bombings or vehicles with explosives.
This may suggest he opined that a “deliberate tactic of war.”
from the attacks yesterday in Syria, the UN said in a hospital of Doctors Without Borders dropped four missiles that killed nine people and wounded thirty, while in the National hospital of Marat al-Numan three people were killed and three were injured.
in a maternity hospital in the town of Azaz, 30 kilometers from Aleppo, 13 died and 12 were wounded in the bombing, while a second hospital in the same jurisdiction which had already been attacked on 25 December- was also bombed, with a score of seven dead and 23 wounded.
also, one Azas of the places to which they have fled thousands displaced after more recent government offensive Alepo- was attacked a school that housed displaced, of whom 14 died.
Moscow disclaims
the Kremlin denied that Russian aircraft bombed yesterday a hospital managed 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, that we are the Syrian authorities, “he told reporters Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, referring to 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 destroyed in reality by the Air Forces of the United States,” he said yesterday the diplomatic Syrian Russian television.
Both the international NGOs and the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights blamed Russia for the attack that killed at least seven dead and eight missing.
We categorically reject these statements, also because those who do are always unable to prove his accusations, “said Peskov.
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported yesterday that three other hospitals were targets of attacks by Russian aviation, providing air support for the ground operation that takes place on the ground the Syrian army.
the United States Department of State has condemned the attacks against hospitals in northern Syria and expressed doubts about Russia’s willingness to contribute to the cessation of hostilities in Iraq.
the Turkish government openly confronted Moscow, has gone further and has accused Russia of committing “war crimes” with its bombing of hospitals, which have caused as Ankara killed more than 30 civilians and wounding another hundred.
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