Alwaght- The United Nations says that Syrian Raqqa city is facing dire as 70 to 80 % of its buildings have been devastated with the government in Damascus blaming a US-led coalition for the destruction.
“The UN assessment mission visited Raqqa city on April 1 to assess the humanitarian situation there clarified that there are large quantities of unexploded ordnance and mines,” UN Assistant Secretary General Ursula Mueller said in a report submitted to UN Security Council session Wednesday.
“Considerable damage was caused to infrastructure in the city, which suffers the lack of basic public services.” Muller said.
She added: “An estimated 70-80 percent of all buildings inside Raqqa city are destroyed or damaged,” pointing out that every week, there have been scores casualties reported due to the explosion of mines and shells.
Hundreds of victims and tens of thousands of displaced civilians are the result of the systematic destruction of Raqqa city by the so-called US-led international coalition allegedly formed to fight ISIS terrorist group in Syria in general and in Raqqa in particular.
During a UN Security Council session held a week ago for discussing humanitarian situation in Raqqa, Syria’s Permanent Representative at the UN Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari stressed that the US-led “international coalition” had completely destroyed Raqqa city under the pretext of fighting ISIS terrorists.
He said that true “achievements” of the so-called international coalition were killing thousands of innocent civilians using the dirtiest kinds of weapons and destroying the Syrian infrastructure, including dams, bridges, hospitals, schools, and developmental facilities and economic resources.
Meanwhile, Mueller depicted a bleak picture of the humanitarian situation in Syria and asked for full access to people in need.
"After seven years of conflict that continues to see escalation after escalation, the needs of Syrians have never been higher," she told the Security Council. Of the 13.1 million people in need, some 5.6 million are in acute need, Mueller noted.
Since March 2011, the United States and its regional allies, in particular Saudi Arabia have been conducting a proxy war by supporting terrorists to topple the Syrian government.
