HELP PEOPLE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE IN THE SYRIA CRISIS

SYRIA:  STOP THE BOMBING

Deliberate attacks on civilians, hospitals and other medical facilities are war crimes.

“The rocket fell on the door, killing a guard and a medical worker. I did not hear the plane or the strike. I felt an explosion, electricity cut and I woke up with a buzzing sound in my ear.” 

- Doctor al-Quds hospital where 27 staff and patients were killed

The brutal conflict in Syria has entered its sixth year with no end in sight. Thirty-five people “disappear” every day. Five people are killed every hour. And every twenty seconds another Syrian is forced to flee their home. This is now the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe.

Intensified Syrian government air strikes have killed hundreds more civilians, including children, in a matter of weeks. Russian and Syrian government forces have systematically targeted hospitals in opposition-controlled areas around Aleppo as a strategy of war.

THE PEOPLE OF SYRIA
HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH.

Several areas remain under siege in Syria, with nothing moving in or out for months and even years. Starvation is being used as a weapon of war by both the Syrian government and armed groups.

The city of Daraya outside Damascus, besieged for over three years and cut off from any humanitarian aid, has also endured thousands of indiscriminate barrel bombs -- deadly weapons fashioned out of oil barrels, fuel tanks or gas cylinders packed with explosives, fuel, and metal fragments and dropped from helicopters and planes. The city’s only remaining field hospital has been targeted 15 times by government forces.

These are war crimes. The international community cannot continue to make excuses for their inaction.

LEARN MORE 

Syria: UN Security Council must step up pressure to end attacks on hospitals as hundreds killed in Aleppo (Release: May 3, 2016)

Syria: Terrifying eyewitness video of life under siege and barrel bombs must spur humanitarian lifeline (Video: April 18, 2016)

'In Madaya you see walking skeletons': Harrowing accounts of life under siege in Syria (Press Release: January 8, 2016)