France condemned the bombing on Saturday of a hospital in Syria’s Aleppo, saying the shelling of healthcare structures and personnel in the besieged city constituted war crimes.

“Their perpetrators will be held to account,” Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a statement.

“France is mobilising at the Security Council as we speak to put a stop to this unacceptable tragedy,” he added.

At least two barrel bombs hit the largest hospital in the rebel-held side of Aleppo early on Saturday, the medical organisation that supports it said.

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The facility, known as M10, had already been hit by heavy bombardment on Wednesday along with the second-largest hospital in the area in what UN chief Ban Ki-moon denounced as “war crimes”.

“Two barrel bombs hit the M10 hospital and there were reports of a cluster bomb as well,” Adham Sahloul of the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) said of Saturday’s attack.

Wednesday’s bombardment heavily damaged the two facilities and left only six fully functional hospitals in the city’s east, according to SAMS.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, confirmed that the M10 hospital was hit on Saturday.

Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said one person was killed, but could not immediately confirm if the victim was a patient at the facility or a member of staff.

The recent bombardment of Aleppo has been some of the worst in Syria’s five-year civil war, leaving more than 220 people dead and turning residential buildings into heaps of rubble.

The World Health Organization has called Syria the most dangerous place in the world for health workers.

Source: FRANCE 24, AFP, 01 Oct. 2016