(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian warplanes hit Thursday a medicine factory which also operates as a hospital in the northern countryside of Aleppo city, in a flagrant aggression on main hospitals in rebel-held areas that have been forced to close indefinitely after being targeted by Russia and regime air strikes.
Abu Mustafa, local activist, said Russian fighter jets had carried out 4 raids on the medicine factory near al Hader and al aI Eis villages.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Monday that the private al-Sakhour hospital, serving around 400,000 people as one of the only hospitals in east Aleppo, halted all activities after being bombed twice on consecutive days last week.
"It is unclear when or if the hospital will be operative again" as it was severely damaged, an MSF statement said.
The hospital's staff are Syrian, but it receives medical equipment from MSF every three months, an MSF representative told the AFP news agency.
Aleppo, once Syria's largest city and commercial capital, has been a major battleground in the country's civil war since rebels launched an assault there in mid-2012 that ultimately left the city carved into government- and opposition-held halves.
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