A/HRC/RES/43/28 urges Member States to fully fund and respond to specific United Nations appeals on this issue; 7. Urges all relevant parties, the signatories to the memorandum on the stabilization of the situation in the Idlib de-escalation area of 17 September 2018, and particularly the Syrian authorities and their State and non-State allies, to immediately respect and uphold the ceasefire in Idlib in order to prevent further death and injury among civilians, and to facilitate timely, immediate, unhindered, sustained and safe humanitarian assistance to those in need; 8. Strongly condemns all violations and abuses of international human rights law and all violations of international humanitarian law committed by all parties to the conflict, including the continued systematic, widespread and gross violations and abuses of human rights and all violations of international humanitarian law by the Syrian regime and its affiliated State and non-State actors, including foreign terrorist fighters and those foreign organizations fighting on behalf of the Syrian authorities, and expresses deep concern that their involvement further exacerbates the deteriorating situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, including the human rights and humanitarian situation, which has a serious negative impact on the region; 9. Also strongly condemns all attacks against the civilian population and civilian objects, such as schools, camps for internally displaced persons, medical units, medical personnel, patients and transport, and personnel involved in humanitarian assistance, in violation of international humanitarian law, and recalls the primary responsibility of the Syrian authorities to protect the civilian population; 10. Calls for an immediate cessation of attacks on first responders, and on medical facilities, which are regularly put out of service, depriving civilians and persons hors de combat of immediate life-saving medical care, including mental health and psychosocial support, and deplores the long-term consequences of such attacks for the population and health-care systems of the Syrian Arab Republic; 11. Welcomes the report of the United Nations Board of Inquiry to investigate attacks on de-conflicted and United Nations-supported facilities in the north-west of the Syrian Arab Republic; 12. Demands that all parties to the conflict comply with their respective obligations under international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and that the Syrian authorities and their State and non-State allies immediately end the use of prohibited weapons and munitions, the indiscriminate use of heavy weapons in populated areas, barrel bombs, aerial bombardment, incendiary weapons, ballistic missiles and cluster bombs, and expresses particular concern in this regard at the recent events in Idlib and surrounding areas; 13. Expresses deep concern at the number of civilians, including children, killed or maimed by landmines, explosive remnants of war and improvised explosive devices used by all parties to the conflict; 14. Deplores the deliberate use of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, and encourages the Commission of Inquiry to include in future investigations violations and abuses of international human rights law and violations of international humanitarian law related to the use of starvation of civilians; 15. Expresses deep concern at the grave humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic and at the plight of the 11.1 million people in need of full, timely, immediate, unhindered and safe humanitarian assistance, including the more than 6.5 million Syrians whose needs are particularly acute and in areas where freedom of movement and access to humanitarian aid and services remain very restricted, including in camps for internally displaced persons, and, noting that the severity of the humanitarian situation requires the use of all aid modalities, is particularly concerned about the impact of reduced points of crossborder access and the reduced time frame following the adoption by the Security Council of its resolution 2504 (2020) on 10 January 2020, and calls for the continuation of cross-border humanitarian support beyond July 2020; 4

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