The Syrian Expatriate Medical Association strongly condemns the horrific attacks that have targeted hospitals and healthcare facilities in northern Syria in the past hours and days, depriving thousands of civilians, including women, children, and the elderly, of their natural right to essential healthcare.
These repeated and deliberate brutal attacks by military aircraft directly targeted healthcare facilities, leading to the complete shutdown of several hospitals and health centers, including the martyr Dr. Hasan Al-Araj Hospital, leaving this area without any healthcare services.
At least 112 direct military attacks on healthcare facilities in Syria were documented in 2017, resulting in the death of 72 people and serious injuries to 153 others. In the month of December alone, 27 healthcare workers were martyred.
The Association strongly condemns this heinous behavior and savage assault on hospitals, medical facilities, and the innocent members of our people, considering it a flagrant violation of all international laws and norms and a criminal aggression without justification.
The Syrian Expatriate Medical Association also calls on all concerned countries, the United Nations, humanitarian organizations, and international institutions to exert maximum effort to stop this flagrant aggression, pressure the perpetrators to cease targeting civilians, and uphold international humanitarian law and human rights law by preventing these attacks on healthcare facilities and healthcare workers.