The Internal Security Forces (ISF) continue their heroic resistance for the fifth consecutive day against the barbaric attacks carried out by militias affiliated with the Damascus government, with support and backing from Turkish Bayraktar drones.
In this context, the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood is witnessing intense and ongoing clashes with the militias of the Damascus government, resulting in the destruction of two armored vehicles belonging to those militias, amid urban warfare led by our forces to repel attempts of advance and aggression, said the Internal Security Forces on Saturday.
In parallel, the militias continue to target Khaled Fajr Hospital, which is crowded with civilian wounded, in a dangerous escalation that threatens the lives of civilians and medical personnel, with direct support and backing from Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles.
Video footage from the ground documents the dire humanitarian conditions inside Khaled Fajr Hospital, amid severe overcrowding of wounded civilians.
ISF said that officials of the Damascus government militias claimed that there are tunnels beneath Khaled Fajr Hospital in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, and that ISF forces are engaging in combat inside these tunnels.
“We categorically reject this claim in its entirety, as it represents a transparent attempt by these militias to distort the facts. We call upon independent international human rights committees to visit the hospital and directly observe the on-the-ground reality. The militias are using these allegations to justify their crimes against wounded civilians, women, and children inside the hospital, and to evade accountability for the crimes they have committed during their barbaric campaign, which continues for the fifth consecutive day,” the statement underlined.
Video footage from the ground documents the dire humanitarian conditions inside Khaled Fajr Hospital, amid severe overcrowding of wounded civilians.