(MSF) – Renewed intense conflict through late November in besieged areas near Damascus and Homs has led to significant increases in mass casualty influxes, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Multiple airstrikes hit east Ghouta again today; medics in the area are reporting many casualties, including women and children, but the tally of today’s war-wounded and war-dead […]
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(UNICEF) – In November 2016, in the midst of escalating fighting across the Syrian Arab Republic, children are doing whatever they can to live normal childhoods. The Land of Childhood, a playground theme park created by linking a series of basements together, offers children — and their parents — the relative safety that they so desperately seek, just to play. […]
(Al Jazeera) – Syrian government forces and allied fighters advanced further into rebel-held Aleppo on Monday, pressing an offensive in defiance of international concern for the fate of the city and its beleaguered civilians. “At least 36 people were killed in Monday’s bombing,” rescue worker Ibrahim Abu Leith told Al Jazeera. “These are the most violent […]
(Save the Children) – Hospitals across north-west Syria are looking at plans to further protect their facilities amid a constant wave of attacks. The defensive measures were prompted by sustained aerial bombardment on medical facilities in East Aleppo, which have left hospitals struggling to provide emergency care to gravely injured children. According to The Aleppo Health […]
(CNN) – In every corridor, every corner of the Omar Hospital in Aleppo, there are scenes of horror. Decapitated bodies on the hospital’s floor, children with bloodied faces, screaming mothers searching for their families under the rubble — these were some of images that one medic described to CNN after a hospital in eastern Aleppo […]
(OCHA) – As we meet again this month, the suffering of civilians in Aleppo and across Syria rages on unabated. Horror is now usual – it is a level of violence and destruction that the world appears to consider normal for Syria and normal for the Syrian people. Month after month I have reported to this […]
(UNICEF) – It has been a horrific week for Syria’s children – living and dying under the relentless bombardment of schools, homes and hospitals. Hospitals in eastern Aleppo and Idlib were targeted while attacks on schools in Aleppo and Ghouta left nine children dead. We saw footage of children being treated for asphyxiation in eastern Aleppo. […]
(UN News Centre) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as well as senior humanitarian officials have condemned attacks that have killed and maimed scores of civilians in Syria, including children, and called on all parties to cease such attacks as well as to ensure unhindered humanitarian access to the people in need. In a statement issued […]
(AP) – Doctors and nurses at a pediatric hospital in eastern Aleppo scrambled Friday to evacuate babies in incubators to safety from underground shelters after the facility in the besieged Syrian city was bombed for the second time this week. Medics and aid workers also reported a suspected attack involving toxic gas in a district on […]
(MSF) – MSF has been able to confirm that two hospitals in besieged east Aleppo were hit by airstrikes on 16 November, one day after airstrikes were re-launched on the opposition-held area of the city. The two hospitals which came under attack on 16 November were a children’s hospital and a hospital specialising in surgery. That […]
