Regime airstrikes have pounded Syria’s Idlib province, with clashes reported between government and rebel ground forces.
A surge in airstrikes by the regime of Bashar al-Assad and his Russian allies, and the beginnings of a ground invasion against one of the few remaining rebel-held enclaves in Syria, has prompted concerns of an impending humanitarian catastrophe.
A surgeon working at Kafranbel surgical hospital in southwestern Idlib province told Newsweek he feared an unimaginable price would be paid by the area’s civilians as the Assad regime and its allies launched their endgame against the rebel-held territory. Ahmed’s hospital, housed in a former cultural center in Kafranbel and driven into an underground basement by scores of airstrikes over the years, took four direct hits on May 5. The facility, which once serviced over 200,000 people, was put out of action by the strikes. The surgeon was inside the hospital at the time of the blasts with 30 other medical staff and 20 patients in critical condition.
3- Four medical facilities were directly targeted and forced out of service today with Russian and regime's missiles, last one of them was Kafranbel's Hospital which was targeted and destroyed by Russian airstrikes in a systematic method to destroy all livelihoods in the area. pic.twitter.com/SES3DJt1Qi
The renewed violence, which began at the end of April, is the most serious challenge to a regional ceasefire that in September 2018 created a demilitarized area maintained by Turkey and Russia. Laila Kiki, the executive director of the Syria Campaign, who uses a pseudonym for security reasons, said in a statement that the current offensive would have unimaginable consequences if it were allowed to continue.
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