(MSF) – Since December, the fighting and airstrikes in the north of Syria have intensified. This has resulted in one of the biggest population displacements seen since the beginning of the conflict. This violence, concentrated in the south of Idlib and Aleppo governorates and the north of Hama governorate, is further worsening conditions for people already severely traumatised […]
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(CBC/Radio-Canada) – Dr. Amjad Rass says the Al Maghara Cave Hospital was the “safest place” in all of Syria — and now it’s been destroyed in an airstrike. Located in Kafr Zita, Hama province, the hospital was built under 18 metres of solid rock in an underground cave. Designed to withstand attacks in the war-torn country, it managed to keep operating through four separate […]
(OCHA) – I am appalled by the ongoing attacks on hospitals and other medical facilities in northwestern Syria, depriving hundreds of thousands of people of their basic right to health. On the morning of 29 January, the Owdai Hospital in Saraqab City in Idleb Governorate was damaged by two airstrikes, which destroyed part of the hospital […]
(UNICEF) – UNICEF appealed today for $3.6 billion to provide lifesaving humanitarian assistance to 48 million children living through conflict, natural disasters and other emergencies in 51 countries in 2018. Around the world, violent conflict is driving humanitarian needs to critical levels, with children especially vulnerable. Conflicts that have endured for years – such as those […]
(MSF) – At around 10:20 am on 29 January, Owdai hospital (also known as Al Ihsan hospital) in Saraqab City in Idlib Governorate was damaged by two airstrikes, which destroyed part of the hospital building according to the hospital manager, who contacted Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Other medical staff said a first strike hit the hospital […]
(Theirworld) – Children were injured when shells exploded at or near a kindergarten in the Syrian city of Aleppo, according to reports. Terrified children hid in the basement at the Al-Wahaa kindergarten after the attack by rebel forces. Link
(Syria Direct) – As Syrian government forces wreaked a devastating five-year siege and fired air strikes and artillery shells on Rateb Abu Yasser’s hometown northeast of Damascus, the 32-year-old nevertheless found time for his friends. “We’d get together at night and play cards,” he recalls. Abu Yasser’s group of nine friends, men in their 20s and […]
(VOA) – A Syrian volunteer group has pleaded for immediate help from the international community and aid organizations to help stop the massacre of civilians by Syrian regime forces in Eastern Ghouta, one of the remaining rebel-held areas in Syria. Regime forces have stepped up their airstrikes and ground operations against rebels in the region in […]
(MSF) – In the first week of the year, 33 patients with blast-related injuries – 13 of whom were below the age of 18 – were treated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams in Raqqa city. Patients sustain these injuries on returning to their homes in the city, which is littered with unexploded remnants of […]
(UN News Centre) – Only in the first 14 days of the year, more than 30 children have been killed in escalating violence in Syria’s East Ghouta, where an estimated 200,000 children have been trapped under siege since 2013, the top United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official in the Middle Eastern country said Sunday. “At a […]
