The United States and France on Monday (March 22) condemned the recent attacks in Syria by the Bashar al-Assad regime and Russian forces, which claimed civilian lives, including a strike on a hospital in Aleppo province.
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The State Department has blamed Damascus for an artillery bombardment that killed six patients at Al-Atareb hospital on Sunday, including a child, in western Aleppo province.
More than a dozen hospital members were also injured in the attack, US diplomacy said.
Russian fighter jets on the same day carried out a strike near the town of Sarmada, in the suburb of Idleb, near the Bab al-Hawa crossing point on the border with Turkey, which allegedly left one civilian victim, always according to American diplomacy.
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Civilians, including civilian medical personnel and infrastructure, should never be the target of military action,
" the State Department insisted, noting that the regime, which is out of control of about half of Idlib region, was aware of the coordinates of the hospital.
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The Russian aviation attack, meanwhile, threatens the arrival of humanitarian aid: Bab al-Hawa "
remains the only humanitarian crossing point authorized at the Syrian border and is still the most effective way to provide life-saving humanitarian aid to an estimated 2.4 million Syrians each month,
”says Washington.
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This violence must stop - we reiterate our call for a nationwide ceasefire.
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In Paris, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also condemned "
with the greatest firmness
" the attack on the hospital, "
committed in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law
", and called "
for all the light to be shed on the responsible
”for this strike.
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The location of this hospital had been communicated to all parties,
" said the spokesperson for the Quai d'Orsay, reiterating the need to fight "
against the impunity of the perpetrators of the most serious violations of the law. international humanitarian aid
”.