A UN official condemns air raids that targeted hospitals in Syrian rebel-held areas this month, saying the facilities were serving hundreds of thousands of people.
Jan Egeland, a top UN aid official for Syria, says the UN does not know who carried out the air raids in the northwestern Idlib province.
Egeland tells reporters in Geneva the air raids in mid-September are “very much associated” with attacks by al-Qaeda-linked forces earlier this month on Syrian and Russian troops in the central Hama province bordering Idlib.
He says government and Russian forces, as well as the US-led coalition striking the Islamic State group, need “to do more to avoid indiscriminate attacks against civilian targets.”
Egeland says “the five or more hospitals” that were hit in Idlib were serving 500,000 civilians.
— AP
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