<h2>Incident 1: The Rahmeh hospital in Khan Shaykhoun</h2>
Location: IDLIB : Khan Shaykhoun
Hospital: The Rahmeh hospital in Khan Shaykhoun
Beneficiaries: ~50,000 people
Date: 19/09/2017
Time of Attack: ~ 11:00am
Attacks: Alleged: Two airstrike according to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HamaHealthDirectorate/photos/a.491994577596716.1073741829.473950772734430/1334949736634525/?type=3&theater">Hama Health Directorate</a>
Reported killed: None reported
Reported injured: None reported
Munitions identified: Not available
Potentially responsible: Russian air force
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Written on the wall &quot;The health care center of Khan Shaykoun&quot;
On 19 September 2017 between 11:00 and 11:45, the Rameh hospital in Khan Shaykhoun was attacked with airstrikes allegedly by Syrian airforce. The hospital served approximately 50.000 - 100.000 people. Khan Shaykoun Hospital was previously attacked on 4 April 2017, immediately after the chemical attack by sarin or a sarin-like substance, confirmed in a <a href="https://www.opcw.org/fileadmin/OPCW/Fact_Finding_Mission/s-1510-2017_e_.pdf">report published by the OPCW.</a>
For the attack on 19 September, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAeBtlsiwfE">first video documenting the attack was published</a> by Muaz Al Shami&#39;s, which showed destruction of the Khan Shaykoun hospital building, as well as fire inside the building. In the video, Al Shami stated: &quot;Most of the hospital equipments have been destroyed. Tow ambulance cars have been destroyed too. The hospital is completely out of service now&quot;.
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Al Shami conducted an interview with one of the hospital workers, who stated in the video: &quot;On 19 September 2017 the Rahmeh hospital in Khan Shaykhoun was targeted by an airstrike. The hospital serves children and women. Its beneficiaries are around 75.000 to 100.000 people. Two ambulance cars that belong to Sham ambulance system were destroyed.&quot;
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNMQXSkgB1g">Orient news also published a video</a> of the same incident, reported by Mouhammed Faisal. See below:
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This video shows the total destruction of the hospital. See still below:
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The <a href="https://syrianarchive.org/en/investigations/Medical-Facilities-Under-Fire/Incident-2.html">Syrian Archive has published an investigation</a>of the previous attack on the hospital on 4 April 2017.<a href="https://syrianarchive.org/en/investigations/Medical-Facilities-Under-Fire/Incident-2.html"></a>A Geolocation from the previous attack is provided below:
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Video by Muaz Al Shami and Dorar Al Sham after the attack on Khan Shaykoun on April 4th 2017
Video documentation of the attack on 19 September confirms that the attack has taken place as the same location. See below:
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Orient news video captured during the attack on 19-09-2017 compared to satellite images taken in 21-02-2017 and 02-06-2017
Hamah health directorate published a statement about the attack on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HamaHealthDirectorate/photos/a.491994577596716.1073741829.473950772734430/1334949736634525/?type=3&theater">their facebook channel</a> saying that the hospital was attacked at 11:00am on 19-09-2017 with two airstrikes which resulted in hospital building damage as well as its equipment and three ambulances.
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Additional videos related to this attack are provided below
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<li>Video from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbpy48dwNNE">Edlib Media Center</a>.
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<li>Video from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_GaDzoTnHs">Assi Press</a>.
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To provide a further layer of verification, the Syrian Archive cross-referenced findings from the videos with flight observation data from a spotter organisation. This process necessitated analysing observation data for flights between 7:00 and 15:00, the period directly before and after the reported attack.
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Through comparing where flights were observed, the time they were observed, and the direction flights were heading, and comparing this data to geolocation conducted in earlier steps, the Syrian Archive was able to identify a flight potentially responsible for the attack (a fixed-wing Russian aircraft), seen circling the immediate vicinity of the geolocated attack site. Previous research has found that circling flights typically indicate target acquisition and/or preparation for imminent attack. Important to note is that while the aircraft type was Russian, it is possible the flight was operated by the Syrian airforce, rather than the Russian airforce, as the Syrian airforce also operates Russian planes.

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