(Zaman Al Wasl)- “We treated them with respect because they are our kin, and this is what our religion dictates we do. Our mission is humanitarian, and we have taken the Hippocratic oath,” said the director of a field hospital in Aleppo after a suicide car bomb attack on buses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged regime-held towns Saturday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 112, including 98 evacuees from the northern towns of Fuaa and Kafraya, were killed when an explosives-laden vehicle hit their buses at a transit point west of Aleppo Saturday.
Over 200 people, mostly children and women from Kafarya and al-Fuaa, arrived at the field hospitals in the opposition held areas in northern Syria. They came to the field hospital after the explosion targeted a potato chips distribution point for the children at the al-Rashidin point in Aleppo’s western countryside.
According to the field hospital director, who preferred not to be named, three of the eight cases that arrived at the hospital had suffered light injuries so the hospital management, in cooperation with the local council in the hospital area, handed them over to UOSSM, union of medical relief organizations.
UOSSM workers handed them over to the Bab al-Hawa border crossing management till wait the resumption of the exchange process amid a complete absence of the Syrian Red Crescent.
As for the remaining cases, the doctor explained that several of the injured required operations of varying types. Several of the injured from Kafarya and al-Fuaa are waiting to undergo operations in the medical point while others were transferred to other hospitals that are more specialized.
The types of injuries of the patients brought to this field hospital demonstrate the massive quantity of explosives used in the al-Rashidin bombing especially as this hospital only received a few injured and many others were taken to other field hospitals in the area.
Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, Obeida Abu Bakr, the director of the ambulance response tasked with monitoring the cases of the victims of al-Rashidin bombing, said that despite the lack of accurate statistics for the number of injured and killed, except around 50 people including Syrian resistance fighters, residents of Kafarya and al-Fuaa were killed and over 200 people were injured.
The complete medical and humanitarian care provided to the injured of Kafarya and al-Fu’ah came as a continuation of the actions of local, Arab, and foreign reporters working inside Syria as well as opposition activists who rescued dozens of injured from the wreckage of the explosion.
Their actions are commended and contrasted with the actions of regime journalists and media crews in similar events who took “selfies” with bodies such as Kinana Alloush or interviewed injured on the verge of dying such as Michelin Azar with the victims of the massacre in Daraya,
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