At least 22 people, mostly children, have reportedly died in an airstrike on a school in the rebel-held Syrian province of Idlib. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing was believed to be carried out by Russian planes. Anthony Lake of UNICEF said, “This is a tragedy. It is an outrage. And if deliberate, it is a war crime.” UNICEF says the attack may be the deadliest bombing of a school since the war in Syria began more than five years ago. Meanwhile at the United Nations, U.N. emergency relief coordinator Stephen O’Brien pushed the Security Council Wednesday to take action in Syria. He said soon there may be no Syrian people or Syria to save.

Stephen O’Brien: “Each month, I have come before you and presented an ever-worsening record of destruction and atrocity, grimly cataloguing the systematic destruction of a country and its people. While my job is to relay to you the facts, I cannot help but be incandescent with rage. Month after month, worse and worse, and nothing is actually happening to stop the war, stop the suffering.”