Goal 16 - Peace and Justice

Battle for Aleppo: ‘All Hospitals Are Destroyed’

Officials tell Al Jazeera all medical facilities in city's rebel-held east "have been taken out" as bombing intensifies.

All medical facilities in Syria’s rebel-held Aleppo have been destroyed, health officials and opposition activists have told Al Jazeera, as another day of ferocious government bombardment on the besieged city left dozens of people dead.

They [health officials] say that they are specifically being targeted to make people give up. –Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid

Air raids, barrel bombs and artillery fire killed at least 56 people on Saturday, volunteers with the White Helmets group told Al Jazeera. The rescuers, who operate in rebel-held parts of Syr

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group monitoring the war, reported a lower death toll of 27 civilians.

 Image: Hassan, a resident of Mosul, wept as his 18-month-old son, Jassem, was treated for head wounds after they were both hit by shrapnel on Thursday.
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