The opposition in Aleppo has also bombed hospitals in government territory with indiscriminate shells and damaged a maternity hospital last month. Assad vowed to retake Aleppo, which has long been a focus of government and rebel offensives that have repeatedly failed, and left much devastation and civilian suffering in their wake. Two weeks earlier a regime raid destroyed a hospital backed by Médecins sans Frontières and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Aleppo, killing one of the last paediatricians in the rebel-held east. Last week much of the National hospital in the province of Idlib was destroyed by a nearby airstrike. A hospital in rebel-held east Aleppo in Syria has been put out of service after government airstrikes in the vicinity killed at least 10 people, a day after the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad, vowed to reclaim “every inch of Syria” no matter the bloodshed that caused.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2016 10:37 UTC