BALADI NEWS
In a statement issued on Thursday, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said that “on Tuesday night, as families gathered to break their fasts for the Ramadan Iftar meal, several rockets hit the densely populated Neirab camp for Palestine refugees in Aleppo, killing at least ten civilians and wounding more than thirty”.
“Among those killed were four children, the youngest just six years old,” the statement noted, adding that “a number of the injured remain in critical condition”.
UNRWA also added that the “ongoing hostilities around the Neirab camp” have pushed it to suspend the six schools it runs there, impacting more than 3,000 children. “While UNRWA has opened its schools in Neirab camp today,” the agency said, “it does so with the sad knowledge that three of its students will not be joining the final preparations for the end-of-year exams”.
UNRWA condemned the killing and wounding of all civilians and called on all parties to the conflict in Syria to abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law, namely taking all precautionary measures to ensure the protection of civilians during hostilities.
Source: Middle East Monitor.