WASHINGTON - Air strikes have hit at least five medical
facilities and two schools in northern Syria, killing 50 people, the United
Nations said Monday, calling the attacks "blatant violations of
international law.
The United States also condemned the Air Strikes on civilian targets, which it said included two hospitals in the Aleppo area -- a Medecins Sans Frontieres facility and the Women's and Children's Hospital in Aziz city.
Neither
the United States nor the United Nations identified who carried out the Air Strikes, but Russia has been conducting an Air Strikes in and around Aleppo in
support of a Syrian government ground aggressive.
UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was "deeply concerned by reports that
Air Strikes on at least five medical facilities and two schools in Aleppo
and Idlib that killed close to 50 civilians including children and injured
many," UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.
Ban considers that "such attacks are blatant violations of international law," he added.
Ban considers that "such attacks are blatant violations of international law," he added.
The fighting in Syria has strengthened despite Friday's call in Munich for an end to conflicts in a civil war that has killed more than 260,000 people since it began five years ago.
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