The last operating hospital in east Aleppo has been destroyed by airstrikes, leaving up to 250,000 residents without access to surgery or specialist care and rebel-held districts at the point of collapse. “The Aleppo hospitals have been reopened so many times, underground or in new locations, but between the bombing and the siege I don’t know if it will be possible to resurrect them this time,” he said. Doctors and residents inside Aleppo said there were no more than two weeks’ supplies of food and medicines left inside the city. Turkish forces continue to back a rebel push against the Isis stronghold of al-Bab, 25 miles to the north-east of Aleppo. “The bombing of the last functioning hospital in Aleppo is part of a systematic campaign to remove even the most basic of services left in the city,” she said.

Source: The Guardian November 19, 2016 17:59 UTC