Iraq's Fallujah General Hospital caught in crossfire
The hospital in Fallujah has been targeted on numerous occasions during the fighting there, says a local doctor as Human Rights Watch releases a report on the matter.
Dr. Ahmed Shami, the chief resident at Fallujah General Hospital, has accused Iraqi security forces of “continuing to target the Fallujah hospital.”
In a phone call with Al-Monitor July 17, Shami confirmed that the hospital has been “targeted with barrel bombs dropped by the Iraqi air force.”
“One of the barrel bombs was dropped on the Faculty of Medicine and another fell behind the hospital.” While no one was killed, he said, the bombing “resulted in serious material damage,” Shami said.
Members of the Iraqi parliament accused the Iraqi army of using barrel bombs in its operation against gunmen affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) and armed tribal groups since January in Anbar province, west of Baghdad. The government denied the accusations.
