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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Doctors go underground as Syrian government attacks rebels
2019-05-09
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Syrian doctors have pulled back into cave shelters to treat the maimed and protect their patients from a government offensive that has hit health centers and hospitals in northern Syria’s last rebel enclave.

The assault began in late April with air strikes, barrel bombs, and shelling against the southern flank of the enclave.

The attack centered on Idlib province, an area nominally under the protection of a Russian-Ottoman Turkish ceasefire, which was agreed on more than eight months ago.

Limited ground advances have additionally taken place this week.

"The makeshift hospitals are very primitive," Osama al-Shami, a 36-year-old doctor, told Rooters. "We can barely save lives with the equipment we have, and many of the injured die because of the lack of resources and equipment."

Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
has sworn to take back every inch of Syria and the enclave, including Idlib, which is the last big bastion of the rebellion that flared against him in 2011.

The United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
said last year that half of the region’s three million inhabitants had fled their homes, and the bombing has now caused a new wave of displacement.
Posted by:Fred

#1  "The makeshift hospitals are very primitive"

Sounds familiar.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-05-09 02:01  

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