[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 39 (Thursday, February 27, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H1241]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     HUMANITARIAN DISASTER IN IDLIB

  (Mr. HILL of Arkansas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, 96 airstrikes, eight cluster bomb 
attacks, 231 artillery and missile attacks--that is what the people in 
Idlib, Syria, experienced yesterday from the forces of the brutal 
dictator Assad and his Russian protector, Putin. These attacks hit 10 
schools and one hospital, killing 26 and injuring over 100.
  After nearly 10 years of death and destruction, Idlib is becoming the 
greatest humanitarian disaster of this long conflict.
  As I have said on this floor for nearly 3 years, the lack of a 
comprehensive approach for U.S. policy in Syria has allowed the 
atrocities led by Assad, Russia, and Iran to continue with impunity.
  The U.S. Government must use the tools that we have at our disposal 
to end the death and destruction in Syria, bring about a political 
solution to the conflict, and hold those responsible for these war 
crimes fully accountable.

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