3-11 | A Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF)-supported medic based in a small town to the northwest of Idlib city, northwest Syria, explains the fear permeating his daily life as a medic, and the aftermath of a strike on a school - March 2015: By training, I’m a neurologist but over the past three years I have become specialized in emergency injuries. In fact, with the situation now, we all work on everything. The situation in my town is difficult.
3-2 | The attack in the Malakal protection of civilians site (PoC) on February 17th and 18th is another horrifying instance of brutality in a two year conflict marked by utter and unacceptable lack of respect for the lives and dignity South Sudanese civilians. According to multiple, factually-consisent reports received by MSF in the aftermath of the fighting in the Malakal PoC, one of the MSF staff who died was killed while trying to provide medical assistance to people wounded in the fighting.
2-18 | Michiel Hofman, MSF Senior Humanitarian Specialist Shocking numbers of civilians are being killed and injured in Syria, with little accountability from the States involved – and in particular the United Nations Security Council, the majority of whose members are backing rival sides in the war. In the diplomatic blame-game that has developed, a new arms race has emerged. In the past, Cold War powers went out of their way to claim that ‘my bombs are more powerful than yours’.
2-18 | Civilians are under relentless attack in Syria’s five-year-old conflict, with 1.9 million people under siege, borders closed to refugees and rampant bombings of medical facilities and heavily populated areas, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today, calling on UN Security Council member states - specifically France, Russia, UK and US as active participants in the Syrian conflict - to abide by resolutions they have passed to halt the carnage
2-15 | (Update on 17 Feburary)The incident has killed at least twenty-five people , among them nine medical personnel,sixteen patients and caretakers,ten others were wounded. The building was completely desturcted.