Farther south, an attack in Syria’s Idlib province demolished a MSF-supported hospital, with a series of strikes coming in quick succession, the worldwide aid group says.
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Also in Marat Numan, another strike hit the National Hospital on the north edge of town, killing two nurses, the Observatory said.
Haq said children were among the dead in the missile strikes on at least five medical facilities and two schools in Aleppo and in Idlib.
MSF officials say at least eight staff members remain missing since the attack on the 30-bed hospital, which had contained two operating rooms, an outpatient clinic and an emergency room.
“The hospitals hit today have been rendered completely non-functioning…such attacks, whether deliberate or not, deprive people of the very limited services still available in the country”, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
While initial estimates had put the death toll around a dozen people, as many as 50 people may have been killed in the attack, according to the United Nations, the New York Times reported. It showed footage of ambulances arriving at the Kilis State hospital, medics unloading children on stretchers and a girl wrapped in a blanket.
Also Monday, Syria’s pro-government Al-Ikhbariya TV said one of its correspondents was wounded in a missile attack in the coastal province of Latakia.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “those who make such statements are not capable of backing them up with proof”.
The continuing pattern of Assad’s attacks on civilian targets “casts doubt on Russia’s willingness and/or ability to help bring to a stop the continued brutality of the Assad regime against its own people”, it said.
Another Doctors without Borders medical facility in Saada, northern Yemen, was hit by an airstrike on October 26, the organization said.
And Syria’s ambassador to Russia, Riad Haddad, blamed the United States and coalition forces for the Idlib attack, saying that it had intelligence that proves that U.S.-led coalition warplanes raided the hospital. He said the group and its military wing had become pawns of Russian Federation and would “be met with the strongest reaction if they approach” Azaz. Tel Rifaat is a major stronghold of militants fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad.
His comments escalated a war of words with Moscow, which earlier criticized Turkey’s shelling in Syria as “provocative” and said it backed raising the issue at the Security Council.
Over the weekend, “Turkish forces shelled Kurdish positions in northern Syria – targeting Kurdish fighters who are seen as allies by the United States”, as Camila reported for the Two-Way.
The US State Dept. said in a statement that these continued Russian attacks dim the hope of a cessation of hostilities in Syria.
The SDF has already seized the nearby Minnigh airbase from rebel forces and severed the road between Tal Rifaat and the key rebel-held town of Azaz on the border with Turkey.
The UN envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, is in the Syrian capital Damascus as part of his effort to restart peace talks.
The Observatory and al-Halaby said an air raid struck a school in the village of Kaljibrin, near Azaz.
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Russian Federation on Tuesday rebuffed claims that its warplanes struck a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders in northern Syria in airstrikes the previous day that killed at least nine as Syrian government forces and a predominantly Kurdish coalition made gains against rivals in the country’s north.
