[Skybird]

Do you think hospitals do no treat fighters, do not need to share supplies with combat factions?

Why do you think have the Syrians pressed so hard to destroy the water supply in and to Aleppo? Where do you think do the fighters in Aleppo get their water from - do they maintain their own water supply network separate from that for the civilian population?

Where do you think do they hide, their fighters, their equipment, ammunition, weapns - if not in the cellars and buildings that from the city of Aleppo?

Its a war. Without taking any side here, i point out this: that the Syrians and Russians bomb Alleppo like crazy is because their enemies are in Aleppo and try to hold the city. If these militias would give up the city and pull out, or surrender, they might not be able to continue the war, might even suffer assassination if they allow to go into captivity - but their mere presence is the reason why the city gets destroyed and civilians get killed. If they want to save the civilians, they have to stay away from them, and away from civilian infrastructure.

That might not be in their military interest. But it also is not in the military interest of Russia and Assad to let them use and benefit from civilian hideouts and infrastructure without reacting to that. A water supply that supplies the fighter sof the enemy, is a tagert. Hospitals that treat fighters or share supplies with them, or get blackmailed to do so, are targets. Thats the simple cruel truth.

Its sometimes was said in past years that Western militaries should not target mosques. But all too often we have seen enemies hiding in mosques and stockpiling supplies there and opening fire from there, thinking the "holy" ground gives them immunity. My reasoning is different here. Enemy hides in mosque, operates and fires from there? Flatten that thing just like any other and bury the enemy in its rubble. Battle won, tactical problem solved.

War's logic. You do not win war by saving the enemy and allowing him to hide.

A war crime it is then when the civilian population gets intentionally targetted as the primary target, for the sake of wanting to kill the civilian population, not the military target in its middle.

I also think it is quite a bit about psycho warfare and demoralization if "civilian" areas get bombed. Lets not forget that the population of Aleppo is not friendly towards the Assad regime, already was not friendly before the war.