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Fighter Planes Strike Aleppo Hospital
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Human Rights Watch
(Aleppo, August 15, 2012) ? Syrian government fighter planes fired rockets that struck the main emergency hospital in an opposition-controlled area of Aleppo on August 14, 2012, wounding two civilians and causing significant damage, Human Rights Watch said today after visiting the damaged hospital.
A rocket attack by government aircraft on the hospital two days earlier, on August 12, apparently killed four civilians and wounded three, Human Rights Watch said.
?Fighter jet attacks on a hospital twice in three days indicate that this was no accident,? said Ole Solvang, emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch. ?By firing rockets at a clearly marked hospital, the government shows blatant disregard for civilian lives.?
Human Rights Watch visited the Dar al Shifaa Hospital, in the Sha?ar neighborhood of Aleppo, about one hour after the August 14 attack, and examined the physical damage and rocket remnants. Hospital staff told Human Rights Watch that no opposition fighters were deployed at the hospital at the time of the two attacks, and only several armed hospital guards were providing security. Human Rights Watch saw no signs of opposition military activity in or around the hospital building.
The hospital is an established medical facility and clearly marked with a red crescent emblem on the front.
Hospital medical staff told Human Rights Watch that government aircraft attacked the hospital and a nearby school at about 3 p.m. on August 14.
Three or four rockets hit the upper floors of the seven-story hospital, they said. On August 12, government aircraft hit the hospital with six rockets in a similar attack, hospital staff said.
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http://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/fighter-planes-strike-aleppo-hospital
Fighter Planes Strike Aleppo Hospital
Report
?
Human Rights Watch
(Aleppo, August 15, 2012) ? Syrian government fighter planes fired rockets that struck the main emergency hospital in an opposition-controlled area of Aleppo on August 14, 2012, wounding two civilians and causing significant damage, Human Rights Watch said today after visiting the damaged hospital.
A rocket attack by government aircraft on the hospital two days earlier, on August 12, apparently killed four civilians and wounded three, Human Rights Watch said.
?Fighter jet attacks on a hospital twice in three days indicate that this was no accident,? said Ole Solvang, emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch. ?By firing rockets at a clearly marked hospital, the government shows blatant disregard for civilian lives.?
Human Rights Watch visited the Dar al Shifaa Hospital, in the Sha?ar neighborhood of Aleppo, about one hour after the August 14 attack, and examined the physical damage and rocket remnants. Hospital staff told Human Rights Watch that no opposition fighters were deployed at the hospital at the time of the two attacks, and only several armed hospital guards were providing security. Human Rights Watch saw no signs of opposition military activity in or around the hospital building.
The hospital is an established medical facility and clearly marked with a red crescent emblem on the front.
Hospital medical staff told Human Rights Watch that government aircraft attacked the hospital and a nearby school at about 3 p.m. on August 14.
Three or four rockets hit the upper floors of the seven-story hospital, they said. On August 12, government aircraft hit the hospital with six rockets in a similar attack, hospital staff said.
More...
http://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/fighter-planes-strike-aleppo-hospital