(Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime-held areas in Deir Ezzor province have been experiencing a shortage of bread for weeks as regime officials attribute increased demand for bread to the influx of people fleeing battlefield of Daesh and US-led forces in the eastern countryside.
Despite promises to address the crisis, thousands of people are still waiting to get their bread in front of two bakeries in the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
Regime said the severe crisis in bread shortages is due to the lack of adequate amounts of flour. The two bakeries provie bread to 70,000 people, receive 5 tons of flour while 14 tons are needed.
Al-Furat local newspaper reported that the government had agreed to raise the allocation of the Albukamal Bakery from 5 tons to 8 tons daily in order to cover the needs of the returnees to their homes in the town.
Meanwhile, U.S.-led coalition warplanes hit a hospital in Deir Ezzor.
The Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) said in a press release that Daesh terrorists used Hajin Hospital in Deir Ezzor province as a platform to engage partner forces on Sunday, Anandolu Agency reported.
"By these actions, ISIS caused the hospital to lose its protected status afforded by the Law of Armed Conflict by using a facility otherwise protected under the Geneva Conventions," said the coalition, using an alternate name for Daesh.
In a briefing, Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning said using hospitals is "unacceptable", which he said was a "standard tactic" used by the Daesh terror group.
Manning said U.S. forces came under fire from the hospital. He had yet to comment on the casualties from the hospital strike.
In October, several mosques were targeted by the coalition in Hajin, which left dozens of residents dead.
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