ALL HOSPITALS IN EASTERN ALEPPO ‘OUT OF ACTION’ DUE TO HEAVY AIR STRIKES

BEIRUT: All hospitals in Syria’s besieged rebel-held eastern Aleppo are out of service after days of heavy air strikes, its health directorate and the World Health Organisation said on Friday, but a war monitor said some were still working. “This destruction of infrastructure essential to life leaves the besieged, resolute people, including all children and elderly men and women, without any health facilities offering life-saving treatment... leaving them to die,” said Aleppo’s health directorate in a statement. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 27 people, including children, had been killed in eastern Aleppo on Saturday by dozens of air strikes and barrel bombs and dozens of artillery rounds.