MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A Doctors Without Borders (MSF)-supported hospital in Syria's Idlib province has been destroyed by airstrikes which killed over 10 people, MSF said on Monday.
"A busy MSF-supported hospital serving a population of 70,000 people was destroyed by aerial bombing in Millis town, Idlib governorate, Syria on Saturday 6 August. Four hospital staff and nine others – including five children and two women – were killed in the two aerial strikes that hit the hospital directly and the two strikes that hit the immediate vicinity of the hospital at around 2pm local time," MSF said in a statement.
The strikes come after intense fighting between the Syrian government forces and terrorists was reported in the Idlib and Aleppo provinces on Sunday.
"We repeat our urgent call to all those with influence on the conduct of the war in Syria, including the four out of five permanent members of the UN Security Council that are participants in the war, to urgently affect change to stop hospitals being hit in the course of the fighting…we need to see an immediate end to attacks on hospitals," Silvia Dallatomasina, the MSF medical manager in northwestern Syria, was quoted as saying in the statement.
On Friday, a part of a maternity hospital, also in Idlib, was destroyed in an airstrike.
Syria has been in a state of civil war since 2011, with the government forces fighting several opposition factions and militant organizations. The crisis has caused a humanitarian disaster, forcing millions of people to flee their country.
