Human Losses Caused by US-Led Coalition Airstrikes No Less than Those Caused by Daesh Crimes

DAMASCUS, (ST)- Human and material losses caused by the illegal US-Led Coalition Airstrikes on Syrian areas are no less than the results of the crimes perpetrated by Daesh terrorist organizations against innocent Syrian civilians, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has stressed.

In two identical letters addressing the UN chief and the Security Council on Sunday, the ministry talked about the Washington-led coalition’s crime of bombarding Raqqa’s al-Jomeili building that led to the martyrdom of dozens of Syrian civilians. 

 Tens of civilians, most of them are children and women, were martyred in an airstrike carried out last night by the so-called US-led coalition in the Syrian city of Raqqa. 

According to local and media sources, the illegal coalition’s warplanes hit Raqqa’s al-Jomeili building claiming the lives of 43 civilians, mostly women and children, and wounded many others not to mention the damage caused to the 6-flat building.

Last month, the coalition also carried out raids on Raqqa and Deir Ezzour countryside, committing massacres against the Syrians in which more than 108 people, most of them children and women, were killed.

The ministry said that the airstrikes has been targeting infrastructure including bridges, oil wells, gas pipelines, electricity generating stations, water networks and public and private buildings in Syria.

It added that such aggressive acts uncover this coalition’s real goals which don’t go in line with the coalition’s claims about fighting Daesh and other terrorist groups, stressing that those who want to fight Daesh must not target civilians or the Syrian Arab army forces.

The ministry went on to say that “Syria, again, urges the Security Council to condemn the illegal coalition’s violations and its attacks against Syrian civilians, including women and children, stressing that such attacks contradict the claims of the countries member in the coalition about respecting international humanitarian law, human rights laws and the UN charter.

Hamda Mustafa