Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
Damascus, SANA –Foreign and Expatriates ministry said on Sunday that the armed terrorist groups in Aleppo eastern neighborhoods deliberately perpetrated another heinous massacre against students of al-Furqan School for Basic Education and Sariya Hassoun School in the city.
“The attack claimed the lives of ten students between 7 and 12 years old and injured other 59 students and a female teacher,” The Ministry added in two identical letters sent to UN Secretary General and President of Security Council, adding that the terrorist groups positioned in Bustan al-Qasser neighborhood targeted the two schools with rocket shells.
The ministry went on to say that “In addition to the attack on those schools, terrorists affiliated to Jabhat al-Nusra and Nour Eddin al-Zanki Movement and other organizations, which Washington, Paris, London, Doha and Riyadh describe as “moderate armed groups” and supply them with money and arms, launched shells on the Faculty of Law and the neighborhoods of Mogambo and al-Midan, killing two persons and injuring 32 others. Moreover, two civilians were killed and seven others were wounded as the terrorists targeted the neighborhoods of al-Azamiyeh and Seif al-Dawla, west to Aleppo, with shells.”
The two letters affirmed that those attacks by armed terrorist groups come while Aleppo witnesses “a pause” following “a pause” announced by the Syrian government and its allies to rescue the lives of innocent civilians, adding that “these armed groups which receive orders from capitals and sides, specified by the Syrian government, will be held responsible for the massacres against the Syrian citizens.
“Syria stresses that the repeated terrorist crimes against the Syrian people show clearly that supporting terrorism has become a policy for the behavior of states which exploited international institutions , including the UN Security Council, as platforms to justify terror acts and prevent other countries from condemning such acts,” said the Ministry.
It went on to say that Syria is looking forward to end terrorism and halt funding the mercenaries who target the Syrian schools and hospitals. It also demands the implementation of the UN Security Council relevant resolutions, particularly resolution no. 2253, issued under the 7th chapter of the UN’s Charter, and yet ignored by Ankara, Riyadh, Doha and other states.
The Ministry concluded by stressing that the Syrian people, as well as all the people of the world, will not be convinced by the misleading propaganda launched by western officials and their tools in the region and media outlets which support terrorists to distort the reality of what is taking place in Syria and undermine the steadfastness of its people and leadership in their war against terrorism and their efforts to reach a political solution to the crisis, based on intra-Syrian dialogue without any foreign intervention.
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