Turkey, meanwhile, accused Russian Federation of acting as a “terrorist organization” in Syria and said it would deliver a “decisive response” to Moscow’s bombing campaign in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Advertisement
Two hospitals were also struck in Maarat al-Numa, Idlib province, killing at least 12 people and wounding about 36.
PARIS France’s Foreign Minister said on Monday attacks on hospitals in Syria by the Syrian government and its allies were war crimes.
“The Russian Air Force has now hit 30 hospitals in Syria of which only one is in an Isil (Islamic State) area”.
“They did not operate with the Syrian government permission”.
An entire district of the Syrian city of Aleppo was destroyed by Russian cluster bombs in attacks the United Nations said were “blatant violations of global law”.
In a statement, MSF said the hospital was hit with four times in at least two attacks.
Mr Mitchell said nothing could be done to immediately challenge Russian Federation. He said their evidence “shows the opposite”. “It’s an obligation, an absolute obligation according to the global law”, he said.
However, even if they are identified as a military objective, such a target must not be attacked if the scale of collateral civilian casualties is likely to be disproportionate to the military gain.
According to Delattre, the “deliberate” attacks and developments on the ground are “in many respects, the exact opposite” of commitments made in an agreement among worldwide and regional powers signed last week in Munich, Germany, to work toward a temporary “cessation of hostilities”, as well as the Security Council’s December 18 resolution that endorsed a road map for peace process.
There is no word yet on when aid convoys might reach those areas.
Turkey has been watching with growing alarm the fighting on the Syrian side of its borders – accusing Russian warplanes of violating its airspace and warning against recent Kurdish successes.
Advertisement
But a spokesman for Russian president Vladimir Putin dismissed the report and told journalists to rely on official announcements from the Syrian government.
