At 3 PM local time today, an airstrike targeted SAMS’ Idlib Maternity and Idlib National hospitals near its entrance, causing structural damage, but no injuries to staff and patients who had been working in the facility’s basement for protection purposes under an emergency-only status for days since the November 27 escalation of violence in northwest Syria. Some civilians near the blast were injured.

Yesterday, an airstrike hit near the emerged cy entrance of the Aleppo University Hospital, causing many civilian deaths and injuries. During the deadly fighting in Aleppo this past weekend, the University Hospital was one of the main caregivers for the injured. Among the injured was a SAMS ambulance driver who was near the entrance at the time of the attack.

Since the escalation of violence erupted in northwest Syria last week, including the shocking turn of events in Aleppo, violence caught thousands of civilians in the melee and caused large-scale civilian infrastructure damage.