Beirut: Missiles have hit a hospital in a northern Syrian city managed by Turkey-backed fighters, killing at the least 13 folks, together with two medical employees, and placing the power out of service, activists and an support group mentioned.
It was not instantly clear who was behind the shelling, which got here from areas the place authorities troops and Kurdish-led fighters are deployed.
The governor of Turkey’s Hatay’s province, throughout the border from Afrin, additionally mentioned the assault on Saturday (June 12) killed 13 civilians and injured 27, including that it concerned rocket and artillery shelling of the hospital.
The governor’s workplace blamed the assault on Syrian Kurdish teams.
A conflict monitor, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, put the demise toll at 18. The discrepancy couldn’t be instantly reconciled.
The Syrian American Medical Society, or SAMS, an support group that assists well being facilities in opposition areas, mentioned al-Shifaa Hospital within the city of Afrin was focused by two missiles.
The assault destroyed the polyclinic division, the emergency and the supply rooms, the group mentioned.
Two of the 13 folks killed have been hospital employees and two have been ambulance drivers, mentioned SAMS, which helps the hospital.
Eleven of its employees have been injured. The hospital has been put out of service and sufferers have been evacuated, the group mentioned.
SAMS referred to as for an investigation into the assault on the hospital, one of many largest amenities in northern Syria that provided hundreds of medical providers every month, together with surgical procedures and maternity wards.
The coordinates for the hospital, which is financed by USAID in addition to UN funds, have been shared as a part of the U.N.-led deconfliction mechanism, the group mentioned.
Turkey and allied Syrian fighters took management of Afrin in 2018 in a army operation that expelled native Kurdish fighters and displaced hundreds of Kurdish residents.
Ankara considers the Kurdish fighters who have been in charge of Afrin terrorists. Since then, there was a sequence of assaults on Turkish targets within the space.
The governor’s workplace of Turkey’s Hatay province blamed the assault on the Kurdish group.
The pinnacle of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abadi, denied his forces have been behind the assault. In a tweet, he mentioned, the U.S-backed SDF condemned the assault that focused harmless lives, calling it a violation of worldwide legislation.
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