Baladi News – Aleppo (Ziad al-Halabi)
Combat helicopters of the Syrian regime targeted Omar bin Abdul Aziz hospital in al-Maadi neighborhood of Aleppo city last Saturday, which killed 7 civilians, including two paramedics in the hospital that went completely out of service.
A medical source in the hospital informed Baladi News that combat fighters attacked the hospital with barrel bombs and vacuum missiles since Friday midnight until Saturday morning. The source indicated that the hospital went out of service five times in the past, but was operated again after restoration, but this time, the hospital was completely destroyed.
The hospital was owned by the medical council of Aleppo and operated by 10 doctors and a significant number of paramedics. However, the destruction of it left only one operating hospital in the liberated districts of Aleppo.
Last March, Amnesty International accused Russia and the Syrian regime of deliberately targeting hospitals and medical utilities in Syria under a systematic military plan. The organization also reported that war forces deliberately and systematically bombarded hospitals, clinics, and medical utilities in Aleppo northern countryside in the previous three months.
Earlier in April, the regime committed a massacre after shelling al-Quds hospitals in al-Sukkari neighborhood in Aleppo, turning it into rubble according to Doctors Without Borders.
It is noteworthy that 40 civilians, including six children and two women, were killed, and others were wounded in barrel bombs, vacuum missiles, and naval mines bombardments on districts in Aleppo and its countryside.