According to the Syrian Observatory, shelling and clashes were taking place in the area before today’s bombing, while HTS bombed neighboring areas controlled by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime after the strike.
Nine civilians, including six children, who were picking olives in the countryside Idlib in the northwest Syria were killed today by shelling by Syrian army forces in this area, the last major rebel stronghold in the country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
“A bombardment by regime ground forces” hit these people “while they were picking olives in the village of Kokfin”, in the mountainous region of Jabal al-Zawiya, the Observatory said.
Nine civilians “including a woman and six children” were killed and others injured, some seriously, the NGO added.
THE Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly al-Qaeda’s arm in Syria) controls large parts of Idlib province and some of the neighboring provinces of Aleppo, Hama and Latakia. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is considered a terrorist organization by the Syrian regime, the United States and the United Nations.
According to the Syrian Observatory, shelling and clashes were taking place in the area before today’s bombing, while HTS bombed neighboring areas controlled by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime after the strike.
Source :Skai
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