Today, Wednesday, the United Nations warned in a new report of the danger of… The escalation of the bloody conflict in Syria following several battlefronts erupted across the country in recent months.
“Syria cannot afford to return to fighting on a larger scale, but that is where it may be heading,” said Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, head of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria.
“We had a belief at one point that the war was completely over in Syria,” he told reporters in Geneva, but the violations documented in the report prove otherwise.
The 50-page report concluded that despite the calm experienced by Many battle fronts In recent years, “grave violations of basic human rights and humanitarian law” have increased across the country over the past six months.
The report pointed to the outbreak of fighting in northeastern and northwestern Syria, causing dozens of civilian deaths and limiting food and water supplies.
Committee member Hani Megally said that he has trusted over the past three months in particular Russian fighters launched more From raids on opposition-controlled areas.
Destruction in Idlib
In government-controlled areas, the Commission has documented the killing of former opposition leaders, numerous house raids, and continued torture and ill-treatment in detention facilities.
The commission also documented more than 12 Israeli raids across Syria in the first six months of 2022, including an attack on Damascus International Airport that halted operations for nearly two weeks.
The United Nations said on Wednesday that it had not been able to send humanitarian aid to Syria by air during that period.
Hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions displaced since protests once morest President Bashar al-Assad in 2011 turned into a civil war in which foreign powers intervened and left Syria divided into areas under the control of multiple parties.
The fighting has subsided in recent years. But the United Nations said the situation on the front lines between multiple regions had begun to flare up once more.
