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  • scores of hospitals have been bombed in northwest Syria.

  • This is the story of just one Ellemann maternity hospital on the 31st of August, just after one in the morning for 25 minutes, it was hit at least six times by air strikes.

  • Inside were over 35 people.

  • Medical staff, mothers on newborn babies.

  • The deliberate targeting of hospitals is a war crime.

  • This one stands alone in a field on the outskirts of the town of Orem al Kubra, near Aleppo.

  • It's the noise of the attack.

  • Wait way, men talking a white helmets.

  • Syria's civil rescue teams who at the hospital when the second attack comes with the jets still in the sky, they're evacuating a group of pregnant women and new born babies to another hospital.

  • Filming a CZ.

  • They go.

  • Suddenly, they realize there's a terrible problem.

  • A baby has been left behind in the hospital, under attack.

  • Look, look in the confusion, he was somehow overlooked.

  • Another team of white helmets goes back, risking the air strikes to find him.

  • But as they clamber over missile craters, the rescuers head towards a flickering light inside, frantic, untrained hands fumble to release debate This baby has already survived so much.

  • Getting to safety is now a chaotic run across open ground way card on his incubator says this baby is a twin called Yusef.

  • He's in critical condition with a hole in his heart.

  • Two month old needs a better equipped ambulance.

  • Fast a lot.

  • Not for the first time tonight, baby uses life is quite literally in someone else's hands for what feels like an eternity.

  • The boy looks up at his latest guardian angel, a 27 year old white helmet called Sammy.

  • Okay, Baby uses arm reaches out for his mother's comfort, but who knows when they'll be reunited?

  • He switched to another ambulance, which will take him to the hospital.

  • Sami's part here is done.

  • Yusef's now, depending on another total stranger.

  • Even so, it's hard to go.

  • Sami's night isn't over.

  • Theater back on the hospital is still underway.

  • His team is sent back to his white helmets base.

  • Nearby, a group of patients were sent there after the first strike, but they need to be moved again.

  • Wait.

  • Yeah, families emerge from the center.

  • Sami helps Mariam, who's clutching her new granddaughter, asthma and heads for the ambulance.

  • Asthma's mother had a Caesarean just before the first airstrike.

  • She's already been moved once, but because of the pain she can barely step into the ambulance.

  • Rescue workers a keen to leave, but it's not clear where they'll go on They're not the only ones looking for a functioning hospital crammed into this ambulance.

  • Around two dozen women with five tables and counting wait as they pull up to the hospital.

  • The doctor treating the women in the ambulance passes out.

  • Thes chaotic emergencies are all too regular, and it's taking its toll on medical staff.

  • Chaos continues.

  • Her waters have broken.

  • But in a world of small mercies, at least she doesn't have to worry about air strikes.

  • For now, How's everyone?

  • And happy thief?

  • Evacuation is considered a success.

  • Only a handful of people are injured.

  • It could have been far worse with the cold light of day at Ellemann Hospital shows how lethal this barrage could have.

  • Bean, just one of around 80 attacks on medical facilities in Idlib in Aleppo since the end of April.

  • If deliberately targeted, it's a war crime.

  • Many of those hospitals were supposed to be protected by a united Nations agreement.

  • That, too, is shattered by the sound of international silence, and you'll be pleased to know that the rescued baby in that footage is now safely reunited with his family.

scores of hospitals have been bombed in northwest Syria.

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