National museum of Aleppo sustained repeated terror attacks
Over the past days, the National Museum of Aleppo has sustained repeated terror attacks which come within the vandalism acts being perpetrated by armed terrorist organizations against archaeological sites in the city of Aleppo, according to the Tishreen newspaper.
The paper reported yesterday that large number of rockets and gas bottles packed with explosives hit the museum causing serious damage to it.
“The main façade of the museum, the construction structure, ceiling, exterior doors, offices and part of outer fence were damaged by the attacks,” the Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums said on its website.
It condemned what it described as the ‘systematic and brutal’ attacks on the museum, which was set up in 1931 and was expanded in 1966.
Photos of damages are available on the following link:
Several quarters in the city of Aleppo have recently witnessed daily terror attacks carried out by foreign-backed terrorist organizations holed up in some quarters of the same city.
Dozens of civilians were martyred and hundreds wounded in the terror attacks, according to media reports.
Since 2011, Syria has faced a terror war that targets its army, people, civilization and infrastructures in accordance with US-Zionist plot which aims to fragment the region and have hegemony over its wealth.
Basma Qaddour