Baladi News – Follow-ups
After the air strike on Kammouna IDP refugee camp, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called on neighboring countries of Syria to open their borders for the refugees.
Jerome Oberreit, head of the charity organization, said on Saturday that by closing their borders to Syria, neighbors deny the war-affected people a major lifeline in the time of the conflict.
“We need to ensure that the border between Syria and other neighboring countries remains open. It is a lifeline and people should have the right to flee conflicts,” Oberreit said
Commenting on bombing the camp, Oberreit said the incident was "an illustration that the idea of safe zones inside Syria is dangerously false".
"We are working in a very extreme environment and unfortunately a lot of other structures have been hit that are totally unnoticed," he added.
MSF said that last year alone, 94 air strikes and rocket attacks hit 63 hospitals and clinics that it supports in Syria. Meanwhile, other 12 MSF-supported health facilities were hit this year.
Several areas are facing health crisis, including lack of medical staff, which aggravated the sufferings of citizens in liberated areas, forcing some of them to cross to Turkey in order to receive medical treatment.