Rebel Clinics and Hospitals

Sarmin - October 2015

 * ''See Talk:Alleged Russian strike on Sarmin hospital

Aleppo - 11 Febuary 2016

 * Russian MOD, Feb. 11, 2016


 * Yesterday, Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren, sitting in Iraq, said the alleged Russian aircraft bombed during day time two hospitals in Aleppo. As a result, he said, supposedly about 50 thousand Syrians have been deprived of essential services for them. Spokesman could not squeeze from himself anything more on the subject. Neither the time nor the origin of these hospitals or sources of the information. Just nothing.


 * We had a night to scrutinize  this information.


 * ''When such nonsense is said by human rights activists in London - is one thing. But when it is said by a Pentagon official, who has positioned himself as a military professional - a completely different situation.

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 * We have carefully analyzed the data on targets, which were affected yesterday in Aleppo province. First of all, to disappoint Colonel Warren upset - he guessed wrong. Russian planes did not work yesterday in Aleppo area . The immediate aim was more than 20 kilometers from the city.


 * And over by the city yesterday only actively flying aircrafts were from the so-called anti-IS coalition: aircraft and attack drones. As promised to our American partners, we will no longer hide this information.


 * Yesterday at 13:55 Moscow time from Turkey, on the shortest course right on Aleppo, two  "A-10" attack aircraft of the US Air Force  entered the Syrian sky and fully 'worked' on the targets in the city. Colonel Warren somehow did not advertise this fly-by in direct and, incidentally, in a figurative sense, too.


 * Let us not be like the American colonel, and to be honest: we had not have enough time to accurately determine the identity of those 9 objects they bombed yesterday in Aleppo. Perhaps among them were 2 hospital. We will take a closer look.


 * ''But the situation is one to one similar to that when the Americans bombed a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, or the position of the Iraqi Army in Fallujah. The first thing they do - they throw allegations against us to take away all suspicion.

''
 * If this deal goes further, then soon we will have to hold two briefing, first for ourselves, and then for those guys from the coalition, who consider themselves professionals.


 * US A-10s bombed city of Aleppo on Wednesday, shifted blame onto Moscow – Russian military

Department of Defense Press Briefing by Col. Warren via Teleconference from Baghdad, Iraq, Feb 10, 2016

News

 * Syria crisis: Hospital strike deliberate, says MSF - BBC, February 15, 2016
 * ''Seven people have died in an air strike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in northern Syria, the organisation said, calling it a "deliberate" attack. MSF blamed Syria's government or Russia for the raid in Maarat al-Numan. There has been no independent confirmation.
 * ''A further eight people are missing from the strikes, the medical charity said. Separate strikes on a hospital in the same town, as well as on two more hospitals and a school in Azaz, killed at least 12 people, reports said.
 * + Staged photo: A child is evacuated from the damaged hospital in Azaz
 * ++ One more photo from here
 * Data Shows Airstrikes on Syrian Hospital Launched by US-Led Coalition Jet - Sputnik, February 16, 2016
 * ''Airstrikes on a hospital affiliated with Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF), and a children’s hospital in Syria were carried out by aircraft departing the US Incirlik Airbase in Turkey, a member of the Russian upper house’s Committee on International Policy said Tuesday.


 * [ttp://news.yahoo.com/msf-seeks-independent-probe-bombing-syria-hospital-101501368.html MSF seeks independent probe] Reuters via Yahoo News, February 18
 * According to accounts from medical staff onsite, four missiles struck the hospital in an attack lasting about two minutes. Forty minutes later, after rescuers arrived, the site was bombed again," said Dr. Joanne Liu, international president of the medical charity.


 * ''"This attack can only be considered deliberate. It was probably carried out by the Syrian government-led coalition that is predominantly active in the region," she told a news briefing.... "The only thing predominantly in the region is the Syrian government-led coalition."


 * "We would like the facts to be established, we are open for other mechanisms for an independent investigation," she said.


 * MSF said it had not provided the hospital's GPS coordinates to Syrian or Russian authorities, at the request of local staff. "In Syria the problem faced by medical staff is if you give GPS (coordinates), you indicate where you are, they think the chance to be targeted is higher," Isabelle Defourny, director of operations for MSF France, told the briefing. "It is known that providing humanitarian assistance inside opposition-controlled areas is something which is criminialized by the Syrian government," she said.

Activist sources

 * مركز المعرة الإعلامي - آثار الدمار في مشفى أطباء بلا حدود بعد قصفه بصواريخ الطيران الروسي (The effects of the destruction in the MSF hospital after bombed with missiles of the Russian aviation) - maara media center, Feb 15, 2016
 * Conflict News ‏@Conflicts Feb 15, 2016
 * ''VIDEO: @SyriaCivilDef recovers bodies from the rubble of a @MSF supported hospital in #Idlib #Syria - @RamiSafadi93
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvlQaehBybk
 * @HadiAlabdallah on February 15:
 * IMAGE:Russian warplanes destroy Doctors Without Borders hospital in Maaret Anuman, killing 5. Dozens injured/missing pic.twitter.com/mImC0wc1LK
 * IMAGE:Azaz's Children's Hospital-Aleppo, which used to see 4000 kids/month, put out of commission by Russian strike pic.twitter.com/lLtemcmfli
 * IMAGE: Maaret Anuman's Watan Hospital also targeted by Russia today, killing/injuring dozens,including medical staff pic.twitter.com/bHG5sxA6vx
 * https://twitter.com/SergueiMakarov/status/700284594831151104

Russian MoD

 * Russian MoD response (Eng), Feb 16, 2016. Claims that this is propaganda 'cooked up' on February 10, in/by Turkey; and that there are no known hospitals by 'Doctors without borders' in the area, at best they are only 'supported' by the organization.

Analysis

 * On a previous recent occasion, February 11, Russian MoD blamed USA
 * Syrian ambassador to Russia blamed Western coalition for the February 15 strike-Kommersant and Rusvesna.