The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that members of the Syrian Ministry of Defence affiliated with the interim government carried out an extrajudicial execution of two staff members of Othman Hospital in Ashrafiyah neighborhood in Aleppo city.
Prior to the execution, government-affiliated factions and their allied groups fired RPG shells on the hospital and stormed it on Thursday. The families of the two victims were informed that they had been arrested inside the hospital.
The victims were identified as Dr. (A.A.), born in 1989, a pharmacist at the hospital, and his uncle (A.A.), born in 1968, who worked as a technician at the hospital.
Following attempts to contact officials in Aleppo to disclose the fate of the victims, the families received confirmations, accompanied by photos, that the two men had been executed inside the hospital.
The victims’ families confirmed that the two men were civilians and had no affiliation to any military or political entity and that they did not bear arms. They remained at their workplace, continuing to serve at the hospital in response to the urgent health and medical needs of the neighborhood’s residents amid a severe need for medical care and treatment for those wounded by the shelling or clashes in Ashrafiyah neighborhood.
SOHR condemned “this heinous crime” and called for an independent investigation, as it amounts to a war crime condemned by all covenants, treaties and local and international laws.