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<p>An estimated 400,000 people (including 200,000 children) trapped in Eastern Ghouta
are suffering from indiscriminate airstrikes and artillery shelling which, as well
as destroying many homes, have struck schools and medical facilities. Over 700 people
are reported to remain in need of urgent medical treatment. Over 2.5 million people
live in the Idlib area, including over 1.1 million Internally Displaced People. Intensification
of hostilities has displaced approximately 270,000 people within Idlib since 15 December
2017. Already this year the UN report at least nine attacks on medical facilities,
in some cases hospitals which were treating casualties wounded in attacks on other
medical facilities were then struck. We call on the regime to end these attacks and
allow full humanitarian access.</p>
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