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?Syrian warplanes flattened a building next to a hospital in Aleppo, killing at least 15 people and damaging one of the last remaining sources of medical help for civilians in the northern city, activists said Thursday.
Once a private clinic owned by a businessman loyal to President Bashar Assad, the Dar al-Shifa hospital became a field hospital run by volunteer doctors, nurses and aides united by their opposition to the regime and the need to give medical care to both civilians and rebels.
The facility has taken at least six direct hits in recent months, mostly affecting the upper stories.
On Wednesday night,Cheap Timberland Boots, warplanes bombed a building adjacent to the hospital, turning it into a pile of rubble and spraying shrapnel and debris into Dar al-Shifa itself,Timberland Boots Men, activists said.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, chief of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said at least 11 fighters were killed in the airstrike, in addition to a doctor, a young girl and two children who were on the street,Timberland Boots Men.
Another activist group, the Local Coordination Committees, confirmed the bombing and identified the doctor as Mohammad Qassem Agha. The group said 40 people died in airstrikes in Aleppo on Wednesday, but did not say how many died in the hospital strike.
Videos posted online by activists showed the flattened building and substantial destruction in front of the hospital. Residents and armed rebels,Timberland Roll Top Boots, and in one instance, a doctor wearing green scrubs are seen picking through the rubble and overturned gurneys at the entrance of the hospital.?This includes allowing badly needed building materials for reconstruction into Gaza for the first time since 2007 and permitting trade between Gaza and the West Bank, the two territories that flank Israel and that Palestinians hope will one day make up the bulk of their state. Eventually, Gaza-West Bank travel could also be considered,Timberland Roll Top Boots, he said.
Such border changes, if approved by Israel's political leadership, could help reboot Gaza's battered economy, shore up Hamas' popularity and extend the Islamists' rule. In exchange, Hamas would have to stop arming itself and essentially give up what is now a main pillar of its power.
Hamas' main gains have been in the political arena. Foreign ministers from the region rushed to Gaza over the past week to show support for Hamas, while the U.S. and Israel grudgingly acknowledged Hamas' central role by conducting indirect talks.
Hamas also managed to show up Abbas, its main Western-backed political rival who — rendered largely irrelevant — watched events unfold from the sidelines.
Netanyahu's willingness to negotiate a truce deal with Hamas, while refusing to engage Abbas on the same terms as previous Israeli prime ministers, reinforced many Palestinians' belief that Israel only responds to force. If Hamas extracts border concessions from Israel, this would further discredit Abbas, the most prominent Palestinian proponent of non-violence and of negotiating the terms of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Faced with Hamas' rising popularity, Abbas' security forces — who for years had clamped down on the Islamists in the West Bank — were forced to stand back this week when demonstrators raised green Hamas banners for the first time in years.
With Hamas doing the fighting and the negotiating, Abbas and prospects for a two-state solution to the Mideast conflict "are on the losing end,Waterproof Leather Boots," said the International Crisis Group think tank,Timberland Shoes.
The Israeli offensive, added Washington-based analyst Jonathan Alterman,Timberland Roll Top Boots, may have "provoked one of the more profound shifts in Palestinian politics." |
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