Deadly Strikes by Syrian Forces Close a Hospital in Aleppo
By ANNE BARNARD and HANIA MOURTADA
A government attack flattened a building next to one of the few
functioning medical facilities in Syria’s largest city early on
Thursday, killing at least 15 people, activists said.
Deadly Strikes by Syrian Forces Close a Hospital in Aleppo
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian government airstrikes damaged a hospital in the northern city of Aleppo early on Thursday and flattened a building ...
Deadly Strikes by Syrian Forces Close a Hospital in Aleppo
By ANNE BARNARD and HANIA MOURTADA
Published: November 22, 2012
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian government airstrikes damaged a hospital in
the northern city of Aleppo early on Thursday and flattened a building
next to it, killing at least 15 people and leaving as many as 40 missing
in an attack that closed one of the city’s few functioning medical
facilities, anti-government activists said.
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Video purporting
to depict the aftermath showed the façade shorn off of the first three
stories of the hospital, with its name, Dar el-Shifa, in red letters on
its tower. Beside it, another building was reduced to a two-story pile
of rubble. People milled in the street, shouting “God is great.”
Among the 15 people confirmed dead were two hospital workers and two
children, said Abu Louai al-Halabi, an activist in Aleppo, adding that
up to 40 people were still believed to be trapped under the rubble. One
man was pulled alive several hours after the explosion, according to another video posted on the Internet by opponents of President Bashar al-Assad.
Rebels, meanwhile, claimed to have seized a military base in eastern Syria,
giving them control of a swath of oil-producing territory as tensions
increased between ethnic Kurds and anti-government rebels in
northeastern Syria.
The developments came a day after a well-known antigovernment activist
was arrested during a bold protest that showed that the nonviolent
opposition movement is still struggling to survive even as civil war
deepens.
In the old market in central Damascus, the activist, Rima Dali raised a
banner calling for “the end of all military operations” — an act of
extraordinary defiance during a time of tight security and surveillance
in the capital.
Ms. Dali and three other women stood in wedding dresses in the middle
of the arched Souk al-Hamediya, usually bustling with spice sellers but
apparently nearly empty. Photographs were posted on Ms. Dali’s and other activists’ sites.
“Syria is for all of us,” the banners read. “You are tired and we are
tired. We want to live. Another solution...” A video e-mailed by
another activist appeared to show the women being led away by security
forces.
Ms. Dali had been arrested in March for standing silently in front of
Parliament with a sign reading, “Stop the killing” and calling for
“Syria for all Syrians.”
Such acts of defiance s have been eclipsed as the Syrian protest
movement grew into a civil war that has killed more than 30,000 people
but beneath the surface tensions still ripple between rebel leaders and
government opponents who favor a less violent approach.
In eastern Syria, a journalist in the province of Deir Az-Zour reported
that rebels appeared to control two of the three oil fields there,
siphoning light crude to burn for heat and to sell, and robbing the
government of key revenues.
In Ras al-Ain, near the Turkish border in northeastern Syria,
anti-government activists said that numerous units of rebels and Kurdish
fighters appeared to be massing and that residents feared imminent
clashes.
Tensions have been growing in the area between rebels and Kurds from the
Kurdish Democratic Union Party, an affiliate of the militant Kurdistan
Workers’ Party, which long received support from the Syrian government. COPY http://www.nytimes.com
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