War crimes
Syria: Bunker instead of medicines
More than 50 civilians were on Monday in attacks on schools and hospitals in Northern Syria killed. In a DW Interview, the representative of an organisation that two of the destroyed clinics operation.
DW: Hazem, you are currently in Gaziantep in Turkey, about 100 kilometers North of Aleppo.
Hazem: Yes, for security reasons. Therefore, I would not my name. I work for the Syrian-American Medical society (SAMS).
Two hospitals, their Association in the Region of Idlib supports, were on Monday, with rockets from the air shot. Ten civilians were killed. You have such an attack happen?
That was a tragic day. But that’s part of what we know. These attacks, also on hospitals, there has been for a long time. Our opportunities for humanitarian aid to be restricted more and more. The situation is so terrible that we do not know whether we will even be able to help.
Search on Trümmerbergen: staff of the destroyed hospital in Abu Al Dohour in Idlib
What can you currently do?
We try to underground facilities to build at all dispensaries to be able to operate. Otherwise we can nothing do more. We are only Doctors, nurses, pharmacists. Us is really more of a nothing, unless all parties to call to stop the violence. We would use our money better in vaccines, invest. But we need to spend it to Bunker build.
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But that also means that there are still some hospitals out there that will work?
Yes. But in many places, had to hospitals and doctors ‘ offices close, or at least their operation temporarily. Since the beginning of the war, there are attacks on medical facilities. And since April 2015, the very reinforced. Therefore, we document these attacks on hospitals, ambulances and medical personnel. What in Kunduz in Afghanistan in October happened that happens in Syria every three or four days.
Are underground bunkers to ensure an effective protection against it?
As always we try to protect: the parties to the conflict, the Regime, the Russians, are simply more effective weapons. But we try to do a minimum level of security. At the end is only more international pressure on the Regime and to Russia to help these human-rights abuses to stop.
There should have been no sandbag protection offered: the SAMS supported hospital is no longer
A red cross, a red Crescent on the roof to bring anything?
Yes, that one would normally do so. Hospitals are under the Geneva Convention, is especially protected. Instead, you must use Doctors in the earth dig in. Or they barricade themselves behind sandbags. Before the Russian Intervention were Fassbomben our main concern, not rockets. Now we can no longer really protect.
Who in Aleppo or Idlib, a doctor needs to try out of the country?
Health is only one aspect. The entire civilian infrastructure has been destroyed. Schools, Markets, Bakeries. Everything that people keeps alive, will be destroyed.