All hospitals in East Aleppo out of action: health directorate

A still image taken from a video posted on social media said to be shot on November 14, 2016, shows the damage inside a hospital, said to be in the rebel-held town of Atareb in the countryside west of Aleppo, Syria

Damascus: All hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo are out of service after days of heavy air strikes on the besieged area of the Syrian city, its health directorate said late on Friday but a war monitor said some were still working.

"This destruction of infrastructure essential to life leaves the besieged, resolute people, including all children and elderly men and women, without any health facilities offering life-saving treatment ... leaving them to die," said the statement, sent to Reuters by an opposition official.