The center provided health and recreation services for the children of Ariha, Idlib’s second-largest city. The child center was put out of service during a weekend of airstrikes most likely carried out by the Syrian Air Force. Several of the attacks happened in late April and early May, when the Syrian government and its Russian allies began a major offensive to retake the last insurgent-held parts of Syria, in Hama and Idlib, provinces in the country’s northwest.
We correlated this information with thousands of flight logs recorded by Syrian ground observers, who listen in on radio transmissions, track the flight paths of warplanes and identify aircraft by sight and sound. To reconstruct individual attacks, The Times relied on witness statements, forensic analysis of photos and videos, weapons identification, satellite imagery and cockpit recordings of Syrian and Russian pilots during bombing missions. Our reporting suggests that the Syrian military was most likely responsible for at least four of the attacks, the Russian Air Force for one and rebel groups for one or two. The Times obtained the list of attacks under examination from four officials briefed on the inquiry, and investigated those incidents in an attempt to determine culpability. Haq said the inquiry was meant to be a fact-finding mission, not a criminal investigation to determine responsibility. was still considering whether the report, or parts of it, would be made public. A United Nations spokesman, Farhan Haq, said the U.N. Satellite image by Landsat and Copernicus, via Google Earthĭiplomats also told The Times that Russia had pressed Secretary General Guterres to keep the findings of the inquiry secret. Seven incidents on the United Nations list investigated by The Times. The inquiry, for example, is looking at only one attack likely to have been carried out by Russia, despite previous investigations by The New York Times that found Russia bombed hospitals at least five times in May and November. Human rights and medical groups that support hospitals in Syria have criticized the inquiry as insufficient, saying it fails to match the gravity of the violations. A United Nations spokesman would not say how the inquiry’s sites were determined. But the United Nations, at least so far, is looking at just seven incidents. Since April, at least 60 health facilities in northwestern Syria have been damaged in strikes, and at least 29 of them were on the off limits list. Russia, a Syrian government ally and a major perpetrator of these attacks, has cast 14 vetoes in the Security Council since the start of the war in Syria, blocking accountability efforts and hindering humanitarian aid deliveries into Syria. Secretary General António Guterres's establishment of the investigation is seen by many diplomats as a success at a United Nations largely stymied by division in the powerful Security Council. Over the past year, attacks on buildings in northwestern Syria, which are supposed to be off limits during wartime under international law, grew so frequent that the head of the United Nations launched an inquiry to document the violations. They destroyed makeshift clinics and hospitals, disabling essential services for tens of thousands of people.
Surgeons were at work under very rude conditions.The bombs smashed into a child care center, a refugee camp and a school. The auditorium of the church was on the second floor and the wounded had to be carried up a long flight of stairs from the street. “…Charles McCurdy recalled: ‘Two doors below our house, the College Lutheran Church was filled with the wounded. …This was probably the first public building in the town of Gettysburg to be commandeered as a hospital by Union soldiers. Adams County is fortunate to have it standing mostly unchanged. It may be the only church in the town that outwardly appears as it did in July of 1863.
“One of the most aesthetically pleasing and stately public buildings anywhere in the Gettysburg area, is this church, located on the south side of Chambersburg Street. The following are passages from Gregory Coco’s book, “A Vast Sea of Misery:”
Infantry – and a patient at Christ Lutheran hospital July 1-3, 1863. A Massachusetts soldier never wanted for anything they could give.” Three Years With Company K Sgt. From the earliest to the latest day, they were the same loyal, generous people. “Let it ever be said to the honor of the good people of Penn., that they never withheld anything from the soldiers that was for their general good.