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Damascus Hospital (also known as Al Mujtahid Hospital) in Damascus is one of the largest hospitals in Syria. It was founded in 1947 and is run by the Ministry of Health. The hospital provides medical, therapeutic and surgical services to patients.
Oct 5, 2023 · A Damascus hospital has become a secret "slaughterhouse" for Syrians who oppose President Bashar al-Assad, where doctors and nurses use medical equipment to taunt, torture and kill activists...
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Mar 14, 2024 · Doctors warn that the struggle to obtain medicine and repair hospitals has put patients' lives at risk. A nurse at the Ibn Al Nafis Hospital, in Damascus. Only 50 per cent of Syria's hospitals are fully functional. AFP. Hadya Al Alawi.
- A Pattern of Attacks on Medical Facilities
- Hospitals and The Laws of War
- Humanitarian Deconfliction
- The Idlib Offensive
- Once Again, Hospitals Come Under Attack
- Striking The No-Strike List
- A Clash in The Security Council
- “A Crime Against Humanity”
No party to the Syrian war is innocent of war crimes, but when it comes to attacking hospitals, the Syrian Arab Air Force is in a league of its own. To be sure, indiscriminate rebel shelling will sometimes hit hospitals and clinics in government-controlled territory, but the insurgents cannot reach behind the frontline in depth and at scale the way...
The global standard for humanitarian conduct in war is defined by the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, which have been signed by every nation on Earth. Among other things, they seek to ensure that civilians can access health care in times of war, that doctors and nurses can work freely and safely, and that soldiers on all sides will be properly car...
Although the Security Councilstrongly condemns attacks on health care facilities, the UN can do little, given the disagreements among the five permanent members over Syria.18 UN agencies have nonetheless tried to facilitate the upholding of international humanitarian law by urging Syrian health care providers to join a UN-run process known as “huma...
In April 2019, the Russian–Turkish truce arrangements that had curtailed major fighting in northwestern Syria collapsed.29 Once again, Russian-backed Syrian government troops pushed through insurgent lines, seizing villages and towns like Qalaat al-Madiq and pounding the Idlib region with air strikes. Inside the rebel enclave, the salafi-jihadi gro...
Opposition sources, aid workers, and UN officials say the April-May fighting saw renewed attacks on hospitals, reportedly including UN-deconflicted sites. For example, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Ursula Müller reported on May 28 that the UN had recorded twenty-five separate attacks on a total of twenty-two medical facili...
Several sources report attacks on OCHA-deconflicted clinics whose GPS coordinates were shared with the Russian military. Mohamad Katoub, the SAMS official, said he was aware of ten different attacks on nine deconflicted clinics, starting in early May. According to Katoub, aerial bombardment was responsible for nine of the ten attacks. The tenth, wh...
Western diplomats in the Security Council seized on the reports from DiCarlo and Lowcock to criticize the behavior of the Russian and Syrian governments. They pointed to attacks on deconflicted facilities as an especially incriminating piece of evidence. “We are particularly alarmed and shocked by reports of attacks on civilian infrastructure, such...
Although the UN’s deconfliction mechanism does not seem to be stopping attacks on medical facilities, it is working as intended in one respect: it is difficult for Moscow and Damascus to claim that a deconflicted hospital whose coordinates have been provided directly to the Russian military is being bombed by accident. Human rights groups are alrea...
Al-Asad University Hospital ( Arabic: مستشفى الأسد الجامعي) in Damascus is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Syria. It was founded in 1988 and is run by the Ministry of Higher Education. The hospital is affiliated with Damascus University.
Apr 23, 2020 · In early March, the already-tense atmosphere in Damascus’s central hospital grew darker and fear more pervasive. Rumors were circulating that hospitals were facing huge numbers of COVID-19 cases and patients infected by the virus were being liquidated.
Feb 9, 2023 · A subterranean hospital known as the Cave and long the destination for war wounded is now filled with casualties of the earthquake — both alive and dead.
