Syria Protests to UN over US-Led Airstrike in Deir Ez-Zor

Syrian state media said the foreign ministry had written to the UN secretary general and the president of the security council about the crime in Hajin.

Asked about reports of airstrikes in that area on Friday, the coalition’s spokesman claimed it had “successfully struck and destroyed an ISIS (Daesh) observation post and staging area in Hajin, void of civilians at the time”.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 41 people, including 17 children, had been killed in two waves of coalition airstrikes on Friday in Hajin and the nearby village of al-Shafa on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.

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.

On December 14, 2017, Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates stated that the US-led coalition was indeed targeting civilian facilities and providing Daesh terrorists with cover.

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