Syria blames militants sponsors for killings in Aleppo
Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi has held certain regional and Western countries, including the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, responsible for the killing of Syrian people in a wave of rocket attacks in the strategic city of Aleppo.
Foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists in Syria carried out over 250 rocket attacks on residential areas of Aleppo, killing at least 23 people and wounding scores of others, most of them children, on Monday.
Zoubi also condmned Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United States, France and the Israeli regime for their role in the ongoing crisis in his country.
A group of students at al-Rhaman Mosque were also targeted in the deadly attacks.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the terrorists fired rockets at several residential districts in Aleppo in just four hours, causing large-scale damage, including the collapse of an entire building.
“The aim of the massacres is to intimidate the people and target their struggle and adherence to the homeland,” zoubi stated.
He further noted that if the terrorists and their supporters aim to make the Syrian people flee their homes, they are mistaken “as we will not leave this place.”
Aleppo has been divided into two parts controlled by the government in the west and terrorists in the east. Fighting in Syria spread to Aleppo in mid-2012.
Syria’s Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party also condemned the deadly attacks in Aleppo as a crime against humanity, holding the supporters of the terrorists responsible for the massacre.
“That crime, which claimed the lives of tens of elders, women and children, is not the responsibility of terrorists only, but it is the responsibility of their supporters and financiers of Al Saud, Qatar, Jordan and Turkey and their Zionist masters,” a statement by the party said.
Syria was hit by the foreign-backed militancy in March 2011. The Western powers alongside their regional allies, including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar, have been supporting the militants in the Middle Eastern country financially and militarily.
More than 230,000 people have lost their lives in the conflict in Syria since the outset of the conflict in the country.
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