Khan Shaykhun Attack Causes International Outcry

The chemical weapons attack on Khan Shaykhun Town in the Idlib Governorate northwestern of Syria caused an international outcry, urging officials to protect Syrians and hold those responsible for the war crimes accountable. The United States, Britain and France proposed a United Nations Security Council resolution to condemn the attack and are pushing for a vote on the draft at the Security Council emergency meeting taking place later today, according to US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley. 
The draft text, says Syria's government must provide an international investigation with flight plans and logs for Tuesday, the names of all helicopter squadron commanders and provide access to air bases where investigators believe attacks using chemicals may have been launched.It also asks UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to report monthly on whether the Syrian government is cooperating with an international investigation and a fact-finding mission into chemical weapons use in Syria.
An investigation committee related to human rights run by the UN related to human rights in Syria has announced an investigation into the merits of the attack. UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura said more than 100 civilians died in Idlib Governorate due to chemical attack came from the air.  "Obviously there is a primary responsibility of the regime, because its responsibility is to protect its people, not attack them", EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini said. 
French President Francois Hollande accused the Syrian regime of a "massacre". "Once again the Syrian regime will deny the evidence of its responsibility for this massacre," Hollande said in a statement. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault called the attack "further evidence of the barbarity suffered by the Syrian people." US President Donald Trump said he was inshock after reading the reports of the attack, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer strongly condemned the attack and said he is convinced that the Syrian regime carried out the attack.
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said that President Bashar Al Assad would be guilty of a war crime if it were proved his regime was responsible. "Bombing your own civilians with chemical weapons is unquestionably a war crime and they must be held to account," he said. 
The State of Qatar strongly condemned a gas attack that took place in Idlib, in the North-West of Syria and led to the killing of many people including children. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called, in a press statement, for an international investigation and for taking immediate measures to protect the Syrian people. 
The statement also renewed Qatar's demand to present to justice all officials responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Syria. The statement stressed that letting the perpetrators go unpunished could have severe implications represented in further increase of violations and crimes in Syria. Islamic and Arab organization also denounced the attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun in Idlib province. Arab League, in a statement, reiterated that targeting and killing civilians with these prohibited methods is considered a major crime and a barbaric act. 
"Whoever carried it out will not escape from justice, and must be punished by the international community according to international law and international humanitarian law," the Arab League said. In a statement, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned the targeting of civilians in Khan Shaykhun in Syria and the use of prohibited chemical weapon and the use of internationally prohibited bombs and weaponry in air attacks amounting to war crimes. The OIC called on the international community to adopt urgent measures to put an end to the bloodshed in Syria and ensure protection for the Syrian people. 
The statement reiterated the OIC's support for the Syrian people's legitimate demands and called on the Syrian regime to stop using the war machinery, torture and killings against its own people. He noted that such mindless criminal acts form an obstruction and a jeopardy to the peace negotiations. 
He also reaffirmed the OIC’s support for all the regional and international initiatives aimed at reaching a political solution to the crisis such as to end the Syrian people’s ordeal and stop the killings, the devastations and the ravages and such as to meet the Syrian people’s legitimate aspirations to freedom, justice and equality, through the implementation of the Geneva I declaration and the relevant UN Security Council’s resolutions, which insist on the need to facilitate the initiation of a peace process that would lead to a transition in line with Syrian people’s aspirations and allow the people to determine their own future in an independent and democratic way. 
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the chemical attacks on Syrian Khan Shaykun town in Idlib. Chemical attacks on Syrian town were "inhuman" and "unacceptable", President Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. More than 100 civilians were killed and 400 others, mostly children, have been affected by the chlorine gas attack in Khan Shaykun town in Idlib, Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations in Syria had said. 

Source: QNA