“Regime forces committed a massacre by directly targeting residential areas with mortars and rocket launchers in Darat Izza, Aleppo province,” according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Eight civilians, including a pregnant woman, were killed and six others wounded yesterday Sunday in shelling by the Syrian army in northwestern Syria, the last stronghold of jihadists and rebels in the country, according to the non-governmental organization Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“Regime forces committed a massacre by directly targeting populated areas with mortars and rocket launchers in Darat Izzah, Aleppo province,” said the Britain-based NGO, which relies on a wide network of sources in Syria.
“Six civilians, including two women, including a pregnant woman, were killed in Darat Iza and two more civilians in Abzimu community”, in the same province, according to the organization’s information. Another six people were injured.
Earlier, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported seven dead.
Earlier, five regime soldiers were killed in an attack by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, al-Qaeda’s former Syrian arm) in northern Lattakia province, the NGO added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that this attack by the HTS was carried out in retaliation for the “injury of 14 civilians” yesterday afternoon in shelling by the Syrian army against districts of the city of Idlib.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which controls large sectors of Idlib province and areas of the neighboring provinces of Aleppo, Hama and Latakia, frequently exchanges fire with Syrian forces and those of their main ally, Russia.
Although HTS is the strongest jihadist and rebel organization operating in northwestern Syria, other less powerful rebel organizations are also present in the region, supported more or less by Turkey.
In recent days, some areas of the rebel and jihadist stronghold turned into a theater of heavy fighting, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The war in Syria, which broke out in 2011 in the midst of the so-called Arab Spring, triggered by the bloody repression of protests with a central demand for the democratization of the country, has claimed the lives of more than half a million people and turned millions more into internally displaced persons and refugees.
Idlib province is governed by a ceasefire agreement brokered by Russia and Turkey as Damascus prepared to launch a full-scale offensive in March 2020. However, the agreement is frequently violated.
Source :Skai
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