The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights


A book is left on the ground at the yard of a school destroyed in government airstrike in Tel Rifaat, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. A new school year began in Syria on Sunday, but the country's agonizing civil war is keeping thousands of students out of classrooms across the country. Many schools have been destroyed or are home to refugees. Some parents are simply too afraid to send their children to school due over fears of violence. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Intense and violent Air and missile strikes target the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo and get the fourth hospital out of service in the besieged east of the city

Aleppo Province, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:
The eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo are still witnessing since the morning intensified shelling the regime forces, and bombing by the warplanes and helicopters, while the regime forces renewed the targeting on the hospitals of the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo, where the artillery strikes targeted this evening the hospital of Omar bin Abdul Aziz in the Maadi neighborhood, where the shells fell on the hospital area putting the hospital out of service, after getting the hospitals of al-Zarzour (in Ansari neighborhood) and al-Hakim and al-Bayan (in al-Shaar neighborhood) out of service.

While schools were closed and the students’ time was suspended for two days period at least, as a result of the escalation of airstrikes on towns and villages in the western countryside of Aleppo, while violent clashes are taking place between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against the rebel and Islamic Factions in the northern part of the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo city, in conjunction with clashes between both parties in Sheikh Saeed area of the southern section of these neighborhoods, and the clashes were accompanied by exchange of shelling between both parties, which killed and wounded several members of the regime forces and factions, while shells launched by the factions and landed on areas at Jam’eyyat al-Zahra’a neighborhood in Aleppo city, also shells fell on areas in the village of Sheikh Nasser, which was controlled by the Syria Democratic Forces days ago in the vicinity of al-Arima in the western countryside of Manbij, local sources said that the Turkish Forces launched them on the village, no information about injuries.

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