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the targeted disappearances of young men and the exploitation of ceasefires as an
opportunity to forcibly recruit and arbitrarily detain them;
22. Demands that the Syrian authorities, in accordance with their obligations
under relevant provisions of international human rights law, including the right to life
and the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and
mental health, promote non-discriminatory access to health services and respect and
protect medical and health personnel from obstruction, threats and physical attacks;
23. Strongly condemns all attacks on medical and health personnel, their
means of transport and equipment, as well as on hospitals and other medical facilities,
deplores the long-term consequences of such attacks for the population and health care systems of the Syrian Arab Republic, and reaffirms that humanitarian worker s
and their means of transport, equipment and facilities must be protected in accordance
with international humanitarian law;
24. Expresses its profound concern about the findings of the Commission of
Inquiry in its report on Aleppo, 41 including those suggesting that the offensive against
eastern Aleppo in the second half of 2016 involved serious violations and abuses of
international human rights law and violations of international humanitarian law by all
parties to the conflict, which, according to the Commission of Inquiry, in many cases
amounted to war crimes, in particular by the Syrian authorities and their allies,
including in the attack on Orum al-Kubra;
25. Also expresses its profound concern about the findings contained in the
reports of the Commission of Inquiry regarding the tragic and relentless level of
indiscriminate attacks on civilians in the Syrian Arab Republic, targeted attacks on
protected persons and objects, including medical facilities, personnel and transport
and blocked humanitarian convoys, as well as enforced disappearances, summary
executions and other violations and abuses;
26. Demands that the Syrian authorities cooperate fully with the Commission
of Inquiry, including by granting it immediate, full and unfettered access thr oughout
the Syrian Arab Republic;
27. Also demands that the Syrian authorities meet their responsibilities to
protect the Syrian population;
28. Strongly condemns the intervention in the Syrian Arab Republic of all
foreign terrorist fighters and those foreign organizations and foreign forces fighting
on behalf of the Syrian regime, 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, and further demands that all foreign terrorist fighters, and those who are
fighting in support of the Syrian authorities, particularly the Al -Quds Brigades, the
Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and militia groups such as Hizbullah,
immediately withdraw from the Syrian Arab Republic;
29. Demands that all parties immediately put an end to all violations and
abuses of international human rights law and violations of international humanitarian
law, recalls, in particular, the obligation under international humanitarian law to
distinguish between civilians and combatants and the prohibition against
indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks and all attacks against civilians and
civilian objects, further demands that all parties to the conflict take all appropriate
steps to protect civilians, in compliance with international law, including by desisting
from attacks directed against civilian objects, such as medical centres, schools and
water stations, and refrain from militarizing such facilities, seek to avoid establishing
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