Medical Crisis in East Ghouta as Hospitals 'Systematically Targeted'

February 26, 2018
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New article in The Guadian featuring Senior Fellow Susannah Sirkin, and the current medical crsis in East Ghouta.

“The unspeakable suffering we are witnessing was deliberately planned and meticulously implemented over time,” said Susannah Sirkin, the director of international policy at Physicians for Human Rights, an NGO. “The current situation is the lethal result of a conscious strategy of besiegement, blocking of aid and, ultimately, the illegal destruction of civilian targets with bombs – a tactic the Syrian government and its allies initiated in Aleppo, and are now repeating with brutality in eastern Ghouta.”

Read the full article in The Guardian.