BEIRUT, Lebanon — Bombs from airstrikes hit three hospitals on Wednesday in the rebel-held side of Aleppo, The Middle East regional office of Unicef provided no details on casualties, damage or who was responsible, but it said the attack was the second on al-Hakeem hospital, which it helps operate.
Others said that at least 10 civilians were killed in the bombings, including children, and that many others were wounded. Activist groups blamed Syrian military forces. Insurgents have no aircraft, which are used to conduct such bombings.
“This devastating pattern of warfare in Syria seems to have no checks and balances,” the Unicef regional director, Dr. Peter Salama, said in aAleppo, once Syria’s commercial center, has been a battleground for much of the war that began more than five years ago between the forces of President The hospital attacks came a day after Mr. Assad promised to Hospitals and medical workers have been repeatedly attacked in the conflict, crippling Syria’s public health system in what medical workers and human rights advocates have assailed as a new low in the savagery of war.
Last month, the United Nations Security Council Only seven hospitals are still functioning in the rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo, home to about 350,000 people, An opposition activist video “It was a mess, it was so dusty, I saw fire, body parts,” Yehya al-Rijo, an activist who rushed to al-Bayan hospital after the bombings, said in an internet chat exchange. He said the bottom floor was destroyed.
“I didn’t know what to do — should I take my camera and shoot or should I rescue the wounded? I took the second choice.”
Rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo have been pummeled in dozens of bomb attacks in recent weeks, despite a “cessation of hostilities” agreement negotiated by the 17-nation International Syria Support Group, a collaboration led by Russia and the United States aimed at halting the war. Rebels have responded by launching mortar shells and handmade rockets on government-held neighborhoods in the city.
