Red Cross urges parties Syria

the hague - The Dutch Red Cross depends Friday in the country's flag at half-mast to call attention to the death of a worker in Syria. Volunteer Firas Al-Hussein of the Syrian Red Crescent was shot earlier this week while he was working in Tabqa, near the IS stronghold Raqqa.

According to the International Red Cross arrived since the beginning of the conflict in Syria six years ago, 71 staff and volunteers of the sister organization Red Crescent were killed while they were helping victims of violence. In the Red Cross and Red Crescent statement issued in Geneva, reminding all parties that aid workers must be protected in accordance with the rules of international humanitarian law. ' Humanitarian volunteers and staff are #NotATargent (#GeenDoelwit). ''