BEIRUT — Even entombing the hospital under solid rock tunnelled beneath a mountain was not enough to protect it from bombs dropped by Syria’s government or its Russian allies, medical staff say.Opposition groups built the "central cave hospital" north of Hama to withstand bombardment, tunnelling into a mountain in northwest Syria for more than a year to bury it below 17m of rock. To some degree it worked: when Russian or Syrian government warplanes bombed it in two waves of air strikes on Sunday, nobody inside the cave was seriously hurt.But massive bombs wrecked the emergency ward near the entrance, caved in interior ceilings, crumbled cement walls and destroyed generators, water tanks and medical equipment, knocking the underground hospital out of service."The mountainous rock, praise God, did not collapse at all," hospital head Dr Abdallah Darwish said from the area.Western countries say Syria’s government and its Russian allies are guilty of war crimes for deliberately targeting...
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