230 civilians killed, hospital struck in Syrian, Russian airstrikes in past week: UN
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Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said his office had received reports including video footage of possible use of 'toxic agents' on February 4 in the rebel-held town of Saraqeb, Idlib province
Syria and Russian airstrikes in rebel-held areas have killed 230 civilians in the past week in some of the conflict's worst violence that may also constitute war crimes, the top United Nations human rights official said on Saturday.
Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, UNHigh Commissioner for Human Rights, said his office had received reports including video footage of possible use of "toxic agents" on February4 in the rebel-held town of Saraqeb, Idlib province.
"After seven years of paralysis in the (UN) Security Council, the situation in Syria is crying out to be referred to the International Criminal Court, as well as for a much more concerted effort by States to bring peace," Zeid said in a statement.
On Sunday, reports said thatnewborn babies had to be evacuated from a burning hospital and a small child had to be pulled from the rubble of a destroyed building after Russian jets launched a heavy airstrike bombardment on rebel-held areas in Syriaresulting in one of the main hospitals, with newborn babies, being struck. The bombed hospital is located in Maarat al Numan
The UN’s said it was“extremely” troubled by the recent uptick in violence in Idlib province and rebel-held areas in the Eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus, where since the beginning of the year.
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“Over the last 48 hours, the scale and ferocity of attacks [in Idlib and Eastern Ghouta have] increased dramatically resulting in multiple reports of civilian casualties and airstrikes that have reportedly hit at least three hospitals,” the commission said in a statement Tuesday.
Russia has waged a punishing aerial campaign against Syria's armed opposition since intervening in the civil war on the side of its ally, President Bashar Assad, in 2015.