Goal 16 - Peace and Justice
November 21, 2016
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.