Ethiopian air forces bombed the capital of the Tigray region today, Macallè: this was announced by a spokesman for the rebels and humanitarian sources. “A civilian residential area and an asylum were hit,” said a spokesman for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, Kindeya Gebrehiwot. For their part, two humanitarian sources said they were informed of an air attack in Macalle, without giving details.
They were killed in the attack at least four people, including two children, a senior official from the city’s main hospital said. The Ayder hospital “welcomed 13 patients, four of whom died before arriving” at the hospital. “Two of the deceased are children,” said the facility’s medical director, Kibrom Gebreselassie, in a message to AFP.
The bombing arrives two days after the resumption of fighting between the government forces and the Tigrinya rebels of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) on the south-eastern border of the rebel region of northern Ethiopia that ended a five-month truce. “At noon, a plane (…) dropped bombs on a residential area and a nursery in Macalle. Civilians were killed and wounded,” Kindeya Gebrehiwot, spokesman for the rebel authorities, wrote in a message to the AFP. Shortly thereafter, the federal government admitted in a press release that, while remaining “fully prepared” to dialogue unconditionally with the rebels, it wanted to “take action against the military forces (…) against peace”.
The executive of the Prime Minister Nobel Peace Prize Abiy Ahmed he invited the inhabitants of Tigrè “to stay away from areas where there are rebel military equipment and training facilities”. The bombing marks an escalation of the fighting that the international community fears could lead to a resumption of the conflict on a large scale, thwarting the already meager hopes of peace negotiations. Since the day before yesterday, many countries and international organizations with the UN, the United States and the European Union in the lead have called for a cessation of hostilities and a peaceful resolution of the 21-month conflict. Since it broke out in November 2020, the war in northern Ethiopia has claimed several thousand lives, over two million displaced. In addition, hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians have slipped into conditions close to starvation, according to the United Nations. The truce affirmed at the end of March allowed, among other things, the gradual resumption of deliveries of humanitarian aid on the road to Tigrè after a three-month break.
Source: Ansa
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