U.N. Finds ‘Deliberate’ Destruction of Hospitals in Syria

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Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic

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No surprise that assad the dog and his iranian/russian/hezbollah scum allies are committing horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity - but will the UN and the awful, leftist media go after the guilty parties anywhere near as aggressively as they do Israel?

Not likely, so more syrian women and children will suffer - but I am absolutely certain that those syrians being barrel-bombed at bakeries and in their homes will be VERY happy to know that the fakestinians continue to cash their huge aid checks while sunning themselves on the gaza beach, and get to view lots of hearings, committees and bds protests against Israel on their new Samsung TVs bought with UN aid money.

I've no doubt that the massacred and maimed syrians and iraqis are delighted to see how much new aid is flowing into hamas' coffers, with new porches and sun decks for their leaders' homes in qatar and around the gulf, with their kids taking long vacations in Europe, while their skin melts off from assad's sarin gas attacks and the UN conducts ferocious meetings on the latest Israeli proclamations about stopping the stabbings of their citizens.

 

[Lucy Hamilton]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/w...n-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic

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No surprise that assad the dog and his iranian/russian/hezbollah scum allies are committing horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity - but will the UN and the awful, leftist media go after the guilty parties anywhere near as aggressively as they do Israel?

Not likely, so more syrian women and children will suffer - but I am absolutely certain that those syrians being barrel-bombed at bakeries and in their homes will be VERY happy to know that the fakestinians continue to cash their huge aid checks while sunning themselves on the gaza beach, and get to view lots of hearings, committees and bds protests against Israel on their new Samsung TVs bought with UN aid money.

I've no doubt that the massacred and maimed syrians and iraqis are delighted to see how much new aid is flowing into hamas' coffers, with new porches and sun decks for their leaders' homes in qatar and around the gulf, with their kids taking long vacations in Europe, while their skin melts off from assad's sarin gas attacks and the UN conducts ferocious meetings on the latest Israeli proclamations about stopping the stabbings of their citizens.

Fuck The UN, it's a Marxist organisation. They didn't seem to care when NATO was bombing the Serbs.

 

[Stratford57]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/w...n-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic

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No surprise that assad the dog and his iranian/russian/hezbollah scum allies are committing horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity - but will the UN and the awful, leftist media go after the guilty parties anywhere near as aggressively as they do Israel?

Not likely, so more syrian women and children will suffer - but I am absolutely certain that those syrians being barrel-bombed at bakeries and in their homes will be VERY happy to know that the fakestinians continue to cash their huge aid checks while sunning themselves on the gaza beach, and get to view lots of hearings, committees and bds protests against Israel on their new Samsung TVs bought with UN aid money.

I've no doubt that the massacred and maimed syrians and iraqis are delighted to see how much new aid is flowing into hamas' coffers, with new porches and sun decks for their leaders' homes in qatar and around the gulf, with their kids taking long vacations in Europe, while their skin melts off from assad's sarin gas attacks and the UN conducts ferocious meetings on the latest Israeli proclamations about stopping the stabbings of their citizens.

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EUROPE is facing its highest terror threat in a decade, warns the EU’s police chief.
He claims up to 5,000 homegrown jihadists have returned after training with ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
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And it’s in Europe, not in Syria and due to ISIS, not due to ASSAD!!!!

Feel the difference, moron!

 

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UN expected to find a shiny new modern building?

Of course Assad is bombing everything

 

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Hospitals bombed in Pakistan, Syria...

Suicide attack targets lawyers at Pakistan hospital, 70 dead
Aug 8,`16 -- Pakistani militants struck at the heart of the country's legal profession on Monday, killing a prominent attorney and then bombing the hospital where dozens of other lawyers had gathered to mourn. The twin attacks killed at least 70 people, most of them lawyers, authorities said.

A breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks in Quetta, the capital of restive Baluchistan province, which also wounded dozens of others. In a statement, Ahsanullah Ahsan, spokesman for the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar militant group, said its fighters killed Bilal Kasi, the president of the Baluchistan Bar Association, then as dozens of lawyers gathered at the government-run Civil Hospital, a suicide bomber targeted the mourners. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar has been behind several attacks in Pakistan in recent years, including a deadly March bombing on Easter Sunday in a park in the eastern city of Lahore that killed at least 70 people. Witnesses described horrifying scenes of bodies scattered on the ground and the wounded screaming out for help.

Pakistani volunteers rush an injured person for medical help following a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. A powerful bomb went off inside a government-run hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday, killing dozens of people and wounding dozens of others, police said.​

A senior police official said Kasi was shot and killed by gunmen as he was on his way to his office. Kasi was among the most outspoken lawyers in Baluchistan province and was popular for campaigning for improvements in the legal community. "It was a suicide attack," said the police official, Zahoor Ahmed Afridi. He said remains of the attacker had been found and authorities were trying to identify them. Ninety-two people were wounded in the explosion, according to Civil Hospital director Abdul Rehman. Two journalists working for Pakistani news channels were among those killed in the attack, according to Shahzada Zulfiqar, the president of the Quetta Press Club. Ali Zafar, the head of the country's main lawyers' association, condemned the blast as "an attack on justice." He said lawyers would observe three days of mourning and would not appear in court in solidarity with their colleagues and others killed in the attack.

In Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau condemned the targeting of "a hospital, as well as the judiciary and the media, two of the most important pillars of every democracy," and vowed to work with Pakistan to combat the threat of terrorism. Survivors described scenes of panic as the blast ripped through the emergency room. Waliur Rehman said he was taking his ailing father to the emergency ward when the explosion shook the building, knocking them both to the ground. "There were bodies everywhere," he said. Another witness, lawyer Abdul Latif, said he had just arrived at the hospital to express his grief over Kasi's killing, and was horrified to "see the bodies of dozens of other lawyers" lying in pools of blood on the floor.

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MSF says a hospital it supports in Syria bombed, 13 killed
Aug 8,`16 -- A hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders and specializing in pediatrics in a rebel-held northern Syria province has been destroyed in a series of airstrikes over the weekend that killed 13 people, including four staff and five children, the international medical charity said Monday.

The group, known by its French acronym MSF, said that two of four airstrikes directly hit the hospital in Millis, in the northern province of Idlib and put it out of service. Six other hospital staff members were wounded in the broad daylight airstrikes Saturday. The bombing of the hospital that serves as a reference center specializing in pediatrics also destroyed the operating theatre, intensive care unit, pediatric department, ambulances and a generator, the charity said.

MSF said the hospital attack deprives 70,000 people in Millis and surrounding areas of essential medical care. The hospital, supported by MSF since 2014, used to receive 250 patients per day, many of them women and children "The direct bombing of another hospital in Syria is an outrage," says Silvia Dallatomasina, medical manager of MSF operations in northwestern Syria. She called for an immediate end to attacks on hospitals, pointing that four out of five UN Security Council members are participants in the war in Syria.

Hospitals, mostly in rebel-held areas, are regularly attacked. In July alone, the U.N. said it has recorded 44 attacks on health facilities in Syria. Syria's government and Russia, a major ally that has been carrying out airstrikes in Syria since September, deny targeting health facilities. In recent days, a number of attacks were reported on medical facilities amid increased violence, and ultimately increased pressure on the health facilities, in northern Syria.

MSF said two facilities it supports in Idlib, controlled by insurgents, have reported nine mass-influxes of wounded in July, that left 466 wounded and 37 dead. In the first six-months of 2016, the same facilities reported only seven mass-influxes of wounded, with a total 294 wounded and 33 dead.

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Quetta hospital bombing: Pakistan Taliban claim attack
Mon, 08 Aug 2016 - A faction of the Pakistani Taliban says it carried out a suicide attack at a hospital in Quetta which killed at least 70 people.

The attacker targeted a crowd that had gathered as the body of a prominent lawyer murdered earlier on Monday, Bilal Kasi, was being brought in. Lawyers and journalists were among the dead. About 120 people were injured. The Taliban faction, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, said it was behind both the hospital attack and the killing of Mr Kasi. He was head of the Balochistan province bar association. He was shot while on his way to the court complex in Quetta. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar [The Party of Freedom Fighters] split from the Pakistani Taliban two years ago. It has claimed a number of major attacks, including a suicide bombing that killed more than 70 people - including many children - at a park during Easter celebrations this year.

Attack on justice

Balochistan, Palistan's poorest province, has long been plagued by insurgency. A number of people, including lawyers, have been murdered in Quetta in recent weeks. Mr Kasi had strongly condemned those attacks. He had announced a two-day boycott of court sessions in protest at the killing of a colleague last week. After the hospital blast, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and chief of army staff Gen Raheel Sharif both went to Quetta for talks with security officials. Mr Sharif expressed his "deep grief and anguish", adding: "No-one will be allowed to disturb the peace of the province. The people, policy and security forces in Balochistan have given sacrifices for the country."

Peshawar mourners hold a candle-lit vigil after the Quetta attack​

The president of Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association, Syed Ali Zafa, called the assault "an attack on justice". The Pakistan Bar Council has announced a nationwide strike by lawyers on Tuesday. Those killed in the hospital attack were said to include Baz Muhammad Kakar, a predecessor of Mr Kasi as provincial bar president, and more than 30 other lawyers. Two journalists have also been identified among the dead - Shahzad Khan, a cameraman for Aaj TV, and Mehmood Khan, a cameraman for DawnNews. Lawyers in Lahore staged a demonstration to condemn the attack. Some journalists also protested, demanding protection for freedom of expression.

Quetta hospital bombing: Pakistan Taliban claim attack - BBC News