Senior Panel Probing Violations In Syria, Examining New Measures To Safeguard Humanitarians
The UN chief announced on Thursday that he has set up an independent Senior Advisory Panel on strengthening the mechanism whereby humanitarian workers and sites are better protected from attack in Syria, according to a statement released by his spokesperson.
As Syria's warring parties had in some cases failed to abide by obligations to protect civilian facilities on the UN's so-called deconfliction list that would exempt them from military targeting because they either involved healthcare or other purely civilian activities, or were supported by the UN last April Secretary-General António Guterres submitted a letter to the Security Council transmitting a report by a UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry that he had set up to investigate incidents in northwest Syria since 17 September 2017.
