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Ethiopian aviation bombed Mekele, the capital of the Tigray region, this Friday according to rebel authorities and humanitarian sources, while the federal government promised to “carry out actions” against insurgent military targets. It is the most serious incident after the ceasefire for humanitarian reasons approved last March and the de facto breaking of said truce. The bombardment would have hit a residential area and a kindergarten. UNICEF condemned the attack.
The shelling of this breakaway northern region of Ethiopia comes two days after fighting resumed between government forces and Tigray Popular Liberation Front (TPLF) rebels, ending a five-month truce in a conflict that began in 2020.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) condemned this Saturday the air attack that left four dead the day before in the Ethiopian rebel region of Tigray and affirmed that it reached a kindergarten, killing several children. “UNICEF strongly condemns the airstrike in Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The bombardment hit a kindergarten, killing several children and injuring others,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell tweeted.
It is the first confirmation from an international body that the bombing hit a children’s establishment.
For its part, the Ethiopian government stated that its air force only attacks “military” targets, accusing the rebels in the region of having carried out a setup “placing fake body bags in civilian areas” to stir up indignation.
Kibrom Gebreselassie, medical director of the Ayder hospital, the main hospital in the city, said on Friday that his center received four deceased people, two of them children, and nine wounded, while Tigrai’s official television, Tigrai TV, stated that “seven civilians, including three children” had been killed, showing a trashed playground at the location he said was hit by the attack.
Journalists are not allowed access to northern Ethiopia, making any independent verification of this information impossible.
The conflict in Tigray broke out in November 2020, when the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, sent the army there to expel the regional government, which had been challenging his authority for several months and which, according to the Executive, had attacked military bases in the region. .
with AFP
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