The UN says hospitals deliberate attack is a war crime – Daily Mail

The UN 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 deliberate and direct against medical facilities or places occupied by sick and wounded, as well as against medical units with the emblem of the Red Cross and Red Crescent attack is a war crimes in armed conflict , “said spokesman Human Rights Office of the UN , Rupert Colville.

” it is not yet clearly it was unintended, 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 medical facilities and staff “ he said.

Although he said he can not point with certainty to 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 with 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” , denounced Colville.

attacks on hospitals in Syria began in 2012, one year after the popular uprising against Bashar Al Asad, that months later became a civil war.

in the period the 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 a total of nine cases of attacks on health grounds, not only by aerial bombardment, but bombings or bomb vehicles is observed.

This opined – may suggest that there is a “deliberate tactic of war”

from the attacks yesterday in Syria, the UN said that in a hospital of Doctors Without Borders dropped four missiles that. they killed nine people and wounded thirty, while in the National hospital of Marat al-Numan three people died and three were injured.

in a maternity hospital in the town of Azaz, 30 kilometers from Aleppo, thirteen were killed and twelve were wounded by shelling, 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 in Azas, one of the places where thousands of displaced people have fled following the latest government offensive Alepo- was attacked a school that housed displaced, of which fourteen were killed.