“War has ravaged our country’s health system, and attacking hospitals and doctors has made this horrible situation even worse.”
Hospitals and clinics are an increasingly deadly front in Syria's three-year long civil war, according to a new report by Physicians for Human Rights.
Aleppo's Dar Al-Shifa hospital (bottom) in ruins after government airstrikes in 2012.
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The Syrian government has been systematically attacking health care providers in opposition held areas, destroying hospitals and clinics, and killing workers and patients, according to the report, released on May 14.
Raqqa national hospital, which activists say was hit by a Syrian Air Force fight in June 2013.
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PHR created this time lapse of the rise in attacks on medical facilities in Syria since 2011.
“Instead of it being bad stuff happening in war, this was a campaign by the Syria military to destroy hospitals and clinics in areas where the government thinks the population supports the opposition,” PHR Director of Programs Widney Brown told BuzzFeed.
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The Syrian Government Is Systematically Targeting Hospitals And Clinics
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