Last hospital in Aleppo BOMBED by airstrikes, people scramble for safety

20 Nov, 2016 by Frank Lea

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The last working hospital in Aleppo has been bombed and destroyed by airstrikes. There are no more working hospitals in Aleppo and victims of the bombings by Syrian and Russian forces have no where to be treated for their devastating injuries.

TOPSHOT - Syrians comfort each other on November 19, 2016 following a reported air strike on Aleppo's rebel-held neighbourhood of Bab al-Nayrab. Intense government air strikes and artillery fire killed at least 27 people in rebel-held parts of Syria's Aleppo, where hospitals have been destroyed and schools forced to close. / AFP PHOTO / AMEER ALHALBIAMEER ALHALBI/AFP/Getty Images

Metro – A Government bombardment of besieged rebel-held neighbourhoods in the northern Syrian city killed at least 20 people, just one day after the Aleppo Health Directorate announced that all hospitals had been knocked out of service.

Airstrikes had hit four hospitals in east Aleppo, leaving the city with no working medical facilities left.

Now, some 250,000 people have been left without access to specialist care or surgery.

The city has been systematically targeted by Russia and Syrian president Bashar al-Assad over the past year.

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Civil Defense workers and Syrian citizens carry a dead body in the neighborhood of Seif al-Dawleh in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. Government bombardment of besieged rebel-held neighborhoods in the northern city of Aleppo killed at least 20 people Saturday Syrian opposition activists said, a day after the health directorate said all hospital in opposition areas have been knocked out of service. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP) øøø øøøøøø

This conflict between the rebels and Russia/Syria could spark action from other world leaders who send aid to the residents of Aleppo in hopes to treat them for injuries. The problem is that Russia is involved and they want to be in good hands with the USA, but if there’s a conflict of interest going on, then it could deter relations between us and them, especially if allies provide aid and are accidentally bombed. Bomb an ally by accident and you’re in big trouble.

This might be one of those “not my war, not my problem” times where our country backs off and looks the other way. We have to look the other way because there’s refugees flooding our borders and preparing to turn our country into the next Germany or France, littered with gang-rape and hate crimes.

What should America do? Step in and stop the bombing? Ignore it? Send medical aid?

What will Russia and Syria say if America arrives and puts an end to the bombing?

Will Putin still want to chat with President-elect Donald Trump when the time is right?