Syrian war set to last several more years
The Syrian war is far from over, Imtiaz Sooliman tells Hans Pienaar, as the Gift of the Givers director takes time off to castigate Iran for aiding war crimes in Aleppo
The first civilian wounded in the latest attacks on Aleppo in northern Syria arrived on Thursday evening at the Gift of the Givers’s hospital in Darkoush, a river town on the Turkish border. The next morning the WhatsApp messages come in from the Turkish doctor in charge, Dr Fekhi Sabaan — 50 cases on the first day; five casualties in one family; first estimates at least 1,000 wounded; first adjustment to the estimate, then just a short, "we can’t take [guess] the total number". By Sunday, the humanitarian operation in Syria had ground to a halt once more, after several false starts. Evacuations of fighters and civilians from Aleppo were suspended after gunmen attacked buses for a similar operation from two rebel-besieged villages, reports AFP. This followed similar attacks in Aleppo last week on evacuees from rebel areas. By Monday morning only 12 more wounded have made it to Darkoush, with everybody waiting for the intended evacuees to be released, says Imtiaz Sooliman, director o...
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