Washington-Led Coalition Attacks Syria’s Hajin Town with Banned White Phosphorus for Second Time

DEIR EZZOR, (ST)- The US-led coalition, purportedly to fight Daesh terrorist organization, attacked the Syrian town of Hajin in Deir Ezzor province using banned white phosphorus bombs, according to local and media sources.

The sources told SANA that that warplanes of the illegal international coalition, bombarded several areas in the town of Hajin, 110 km to the east of Deir Ezzor city, using banned white phosphorus bombs.

Images published by media outlets and posted on social media showed the coalition warplanes’ use of white phosphorus in airstrikes against Hajin town.

This is the second case this month of coalition forces striking the Syrian town Hajin with the banned substance.  

The reported attack is just one of several similar incidents that took place in October: at the beginning of the month, the coalition forces struck the town of Hajin in Deir Ezzor province using banned white phosphorus.

 Shortly after that, the US-led coalition conducted two airstrikes in the Syria’s Deir Ezzor: one of them killed 62 people and injured dozens of others, while the second killed at least five civilians.

The use of white phosphorus munitions is banned under Additional Protocol to the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

Hamda Mustafa