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US-led coalition pounds Syrian town using white phosphorus bombs: SANA

Monday, 05 November 2018 3:30 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 05 November 2018 7:14 PM ]

In this file picture, a pair of US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles flies over northern Iraq after conducting airstrikes in Syria. (Photo by Reuters)

The so-called US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has used white phosphorus in a bombing raid against an area in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.

Local sources, requesting not to be named, told Syria’s official news agency SANA that US-led military aircraft carried out a bombing attack on al-Souq al- Jadeed commercial district in the town of Hajin, located some 110 kilometers east of the provincial capital city of Dayr al-Zawr, on Monday afternoon, using the internationally-banned chemical agent.

Late last month, Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Ja'afari confirmed at a UN Security Council meeting that the US-led alliance had used white phosphorus bombs against the same Syrian town.

PressTV-‘US uses white phosphorus bombs against Syrian city’

Syria says the US-led military coalition has used white phosphorus bombs against the Syrian city of Hajin.

On October 13, SANA also reported that the US-led coalition had dropped internationally-banned white phosphorus bombs on Hajin.

On September 8, two F-15 warplanes of the US Air Force targeted the same Syrian town with white phosphorous bombs.

In June last year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned that the US-led coalition was deploying white phosphorous bombs in both Iraq and Syria.

The US-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against what are said to be Daesh targets inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate.

The military alliance has repeatedly been accused of targeting and killing civilians. It has also been largely incapable of achieving its declared goal of destroying Daesh.

The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, in two separate letters addressed to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the rotating president of the UN Security Council Ma Zhaoxu on Thursday, asked the United Nations Security Council to conduct an “international investigation” into crimes perpetrated against ordinary Syrians by the US-led coalition.

PressTV-Syria urges intl. investigation into US-led coalition crimes

Syria calls on the UN Security Council to conduct an international investigation into the massacre of Syrian people by the so-called US-led coalition against .

The letters added that the US-led coalition was using internationally banned weapons, including white phosphorus bombs, in bombing residential neighborhoods in Raqqah, Dayr al-Zawr, Aleppo and Hasakah provinces.

“The Syrian government strongly condemns attacks by the US-led coalition, as well as its war crimes and massacre [perpetrated] against Syrian civilians. It also denounces the failure of some countries to withdraw from the alliance and not allow the crimes to be written in their names,” the Syrian foreign ministry stressed.

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