A/HRC/25/65 attack, forcing the hospital to discharge its patients. In early November, the army attacked Al-Rajaa hospital in Irbeen, where armed group fighters were being treated. On 3 November, the airforce bombarded a field hospital in Beit Jin. 109. Hospitals in Aleppo city and Al Bab came under sustained shelling and aerial bombardments. In July 2013, Jaban hospital in Aleppo city was destroyed. On 11 September, a jet fired a missile at Al Bab field hospital, killing 15 people, including a doctor, four paramedics and eight patients, and injuring many others. The hospital had moved its location three times owing to shelling attacks. 110. In August, a field hospital in Naseeb (Dara’a) was shelled. In October 2013, government forces fired rockets on Al-Qaryatayn hospital (Homs), resulting in 30 casualties and more than 100 wounded. 111. Medical personnel were targeted and killed while performing their duties. Snipers regularly shot at ambulances in Aleppo city in September and October. In August, a sniper shot and killed a nurse in Al-Hilal hospital, Aleppo. Medical staff suspected of treating or providing medical supplies to the opposition were detained and tortured, as in the case of Dr. Abbas Khan, who died in government detention on 17 December. 112. Government forces blocked medical supplies and equipment from besieged areas. People seeking medical treatment have been arrested or turned back at checkpoints. 113. In attacks on hospitals, medical units and health-care personnel, the Government violated binding international humanitarian law to care for the sick and wounded and committed the war crime of attacking protected objects. As hospitals have been destroyed, and medical personnel killed, detained or fled, the health-care infrastructure has been severely weakened, with disastrous consequences for the civilian population. (b) Non-State armed groups 114. During the attack on Sadad (Homs) from 21 to 28 October, armed groups looted the hospital, rendering it dysfunctional. On 11 November, a car bomb was remotely detonated outside a Kurdish Red Crescent clinic in Ayn Al-Arab (Ar Raqqah). In an attack on Deir Atiyah (Damascus), on 19 November, a suicide bomber exploded in the hospital lobby, while other fighters executed nine medical personnel. On 16 August, an armed group targeted a Kurdish Red Crescent ambulance in Ras Al-Ayn (Al-Hasakah). After attempting to destroy it with an improvised explosive device, fighters fired on the ambulance, killing its driver and a nurse. In its attacks on hospitals, medical units and health-care personnel, armed groups have violated international humanitarian law and committed the war crime of attacking protected objects. 115. During an attack on Tal Hasel (Aleppo) on 28 and 29 July, armed groups positioned snipers around its medical centre. Placing military objectives in hospitals constitutes a failure to take all feasible precautions to protect civilians from the effects of attack. Such acts also contravene the fundamental obligation to respect and protect medical units. (c) Religious personnel and cultural property (i) Government forces and pro-government militia 116. Government forces placed military objectives in and around objects of great cultural significance. Satellite imagery showed military posts being constructed in the pre-Roman city of Palmyra (Homs). Such posts incorporate ancient structures or were built on their remains. The Government, in building and positioning military objectives in and around Palmyra, has breached its obligations to respect and protect cultural property under the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. 17