The Shocking Hospital Murder Video Exposing Al Julani Group’s Inhumanity in Syria

 

The Inhuman Reality of a Gruesome Video

There is a very disturbing video possibly shot in Syria, that clearly show the enemies of mankind in war crimes. It shows Al Julani’s group killing injured soldiers in a hospital – soldiers who are on the ground, strapped to bandages and wires, powerless to fight back. Such a calculated violence in a structure that is intended for healing resonates violence that has become part and parcel of this conflict. Such gruesome footage raises critical questions: At what point can a faction go in order to subdue another faction and where does the line between war and simple manslaughter lie?

A Violation of Moral and Ethical Boundaries

Hospitals are always seen as a safe place universally, even when there is war going on. According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR), such acts took place during the Dawn of Freedom military operation conducted by Turkish-backed groups against the SDF. These fighters are wrong on so many levels – indeed they have violated eradicable ethical precepts few would argue against – however, they have especially targeted the incapacitated and injured which takes their evil dispensation to a new low. That they say the evacuation routes were also blocked also adds more heart burn, to what was an already brutal act. Can any such actions ever be claimed to be ethical even when done apparently in the guise of strategic warfare?

Al Julani Group’s Actions: Ruthless Opportunism or Strategy?

This heinous crime is said to have been committed by Fajr al-Hurriya, a faction affiliated with the Turkish-supported Syrian National Army SNA, reported the independent observatory. As it has been pointed and noted, their work did not end at executions; they stole and burnt homes, and shelled civil populations. Instead of what we get to witness is a systematic act of terror against the civilian population. The broader question remains: Is this a purposeful way of intimidating or are these behaviours due to broken command and control system which has thrown humanity to the winds in the process of focusing on immediate gains?

The Larger Context: The Fight for Dominance in Northern Syria

The general conflict in the north of Syria seems to have conflicting interests and oblique alliances. Turkey regards SDF as extending from the Kurdish YPG, which Ankara designate as the PKK without an equivalent of a legal political wing. But, the SDF is also an important US partner in the fight against the ISIS. Obviously, the overthrow of Assad has created latent power voids defined by various factions battling out for control over critical zones such as Manbij. Under this aspect, acts such as hospital shooting are bitter recalls of the worse that groups are capable of in attempting to stake a claim in a more and more divided continent.

The Human Cost of Syria's Endless War

At any rate, the violence demonstrated in this hospital attack is only a small percentage of the human toll of the Syrias civil war that has been going on for ten years. People, men, women and children lose their homes, their livelihoods, their loved ones and themselves become victims of a war they never wanted. Claims of deaths of civilians through shelling and systematic looting by the factions clearly depict theeffects of militarily heaviness. When even hospitals—symbols of hope and recovery—become killing grounds, it leaves us to wonder: Where does the innocent stand in this cycle of devastation?

A Call for Accountability and Global Awareness

This hospital murder video should be global issue and concern. But while the world’s superpowers continue to jostle for their political alliances, the actual fighting has no limitations. The world needs to understand that denial of such brutality merely encourages further reliance on clichéd practice of ‘getting away with murder’. The video serves as a grim reminder that humanity itself is under siege in Syria, and it compels us to question our collective responsibility: For how long more have we been tolerating such kind of brutality from these heartless people?