Six hospitals in the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus in Syria have been bombed in the last 48 hours, the regional coordinator of the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs, Panos Mumtsis, said today.
"On Monday, five hospitals were targeted. Three were put out of business and two are only partially working. Today, the sixth was hit," said Mumcis.
A little earlier, the NGO Syrian-American Medical Society (SAMS) announced that the important hospital in Eastern Ghouta, the sixth affected, had also stopped working after it was bombed.
That NGO attributed the strikes to Russian aviation.
"The hospital was bombed twice and is no longer working," said the regional director of that NGO, Musa Nafa.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also stated that the Russians carried out the attack.
USA condemns Assad's "tactics" of "surround and starve": Violence to stop immediately
The US State Department said today that it is "very concerned" about the bombing that the Syrian government is carrying out in the region of Eastern Ghouta, a rebel enclave east of Damascus, in which, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 250 people have been killed since Sunday.
"The violence must stop immediately," spokeswoman Heather Nauert said, condemning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's "surround and starve" "tactics."
According to her, Washington is "very concerned" about the "very disturbing" bombings.
According to the Observatory, at least 106 civilians were killed in the bombing of Eastern Ghouta today.
According to that NGO, this brings the number of dead in the last rebel stronghold near Damascus to 250 since Sunday. 17 people lost their lives on Sunday and 127 on Monday.
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