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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria field hospitals forced to close by intense government bombing
2015-07-06
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Bombing by government forces in southern Syria has forced four field hospitals to close, with medical workers among those injured by recent bombings, monitors say.

On Wednesday an Arclight airstrike in the village of Saida just east of Deraa city, aimed at a checkpoint held by the rebel group Jaish al-Yarmouk, killed three fighters and a medical worker at a nearby field hospital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Thursday.

Activists from Saida published footage claiming to be from the scene of the second of two attacks to target the small town on Wednesday, showing a huge crater in the middle of a residential street.

A local resident, Mamoon Aloush, wrote on Wednesday that the local field hospital had been shut down following the attacks, due to "the repeated bombings in the area around the facility".

The hospital ceased taking in patients on Wednesday afternoon, but put out an urgent call asking local residents with cellars in their homes to "donate" them so that medical workers could continue treating people.

Rami Abdel Rahman of the British-based SOHR said the facility in Saida was the fourth field hospital in Deraa province to shut down in the space of seven days, in the midst of concentrated attacks by forces allied to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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A hospital in Eastern Ghariya, a small town just north of Saida, announced on Wednesday that it would close its doors amid "continual targeting by Assad's forces".

The hospital closures come as activists warn that nearby Jordan is closing its borders to maimed Syrian civilians.
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