Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported a pair of barrel bombing attacks against one of their hospitals in Zafarana, in Syria’s Homs Province, saying they left at least seven people dead and 47 others wounded.
MSF officials said the incident was likely a “double-tap,” an incident in which an area is bombed and a second bombing follows hitting the nearest hospital to try to kill survivors. The first attack killed two people, and wounded 16.
As the wounded were rushed to the nearby hospital, three more barrel bombs slammed into the facility, bringing the overall death toll higher, and destroying key parts of the hospital and badly damaging some vital equipment.
Though there was no official claim of responsibility for the strike, the Syrian military is the one launching barrel bomb attacks in the area. The bombs, basically oil drums filled with explosives, have been heavily criticized as inaccurate.and causing inordinate civilian casualties.
Barrel bombs have also been used as a propaganda tool by the Western press and their Syrian rebel allies. As if barrel bombs are worse then airstrikes launched from thousands of feet in the air by the U.S. or its Western allies. Are barrel bombs worse than the regular indiscriminate mortar and artillery fire employed by the Western backed Syrian rebels?
I'm to be upset because Assad ran out of money and improvises bombs and doesn't use shinny new expensive ones? Seems to me it's all infinite shades of grey here, no good guys to be seen anyplace.
Just pointing out that in the article that you cited from yahoo, at no point in any of the direct quotes from MSF is a barrel bomb implied as being used. They refer to a 'double tap' bombing which is a strategic type of bombing. It seems Yahoo just refer to any bombing in Syria as a barrel bombing so I'd be careful on relying on that. The idea that Al-Assads airforce who are being supplied by the Russians have to rely on the use of barrels bombs quite regularly is preposterous in any case. More inventive reporting from Yahoo
Shame on Ditz
Clearly, Yahoo can be relied upon only when it attacks the US. If it attacks Putin or his friends, it's obviously lying! I don't see why the Syrians using barrel bombs is incompatible with receiving arms from Putin. Given Russia's technological backwardness, barrel bombs might be viewed by the Russians as the latest hightech!
What's amusing is the frantic rush to damage control mode among the comments.
Where is the damage control? For pointing out that a news agency are misrepresenting what MSF have stated. You obviously take no issue with distorting the facts!! A Neocons dream voter!!
What's not so amusing is the boiler plate propaganda that emanates from Washington and is dutifully reprinted by corporate media. This propaganda is used to justify the serial U.S. interference in the internal affairs of Syria and most nations in the region.