Seventy dead, 349 injured and 120,000 newly displaced. These numbers do not come from Gaza, but are the October balance sheet of the war in Syria. These figures were released by OCHA, the UN humanitarian affairs agency, underscoring the resurgence of hostilities in the country torn apart by a civil war that began in 2011. […]
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Seventy dead, 349 injured And 120 thousand new displaced persons. These figures do not come from Gaza, but are the results of the war in October Syria. Spreading these numbers is the Ochathe UN humanitarian affairs agency, highlighting the resurgence of hostilities in the country torn by a civil war that began in 2011.
Target of bombing raids by the Syrian Air Force, loyal to the government of Bashar al-Assad and supported by the Russian, is the region Idlib, enclave of opposition. The main target, according to the United Nations, are the internal refugee camps near the Turkish border. Last Tuesday, a bomb attack on the city of Taftanaz killed one civilian and injured five others, including a child. “The recent military escalation by the Russians and the Damascus government – explains the director of the refugee camp at Tahinterviewed by the newspaper Al Araby el Jadeed – is very worrying: there is a fear that they will attack the refugee camps, which are overcrowded with refugees who have nothing but their tents.”
Those who run away, says the activist Khader al Obaid According to the Arab newspaper, “he is afraid to return to his homes, especially in the Idlib area, which is constantly targeted by air strikes.” “Farmers,” he continues, “are the most affected by the events.” Not only “Because they can’t harvest the vegetables or fruit, but also because the cluster bombs leave their fields behind.”
Especially when it comes to the use of cluster bombs, Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned the use of these devices, which are banned by international conventions. Those who are paying the price, stressed Adam Google, deputy Middle East director of the human rights organization, “are the children of Idlib: once again victims of insensitive and illegal military actions.” Such a Terminin, a city in northern Idlib, on October 6, 2023, where the use of cluster bombs killed two civilians and injured nine others. The next day, Human Rights Watch reported, a 9-year-old boy picked up an unexploded device that exploded on contact, injuring him and two other minors. The bomb, HRW’s statement said, was dropped during a military campaign by Syrian and Russian forces against opposition-held northwest Syria that began on October 5 and has hit more than “2,300 locations” across the region to date met.
“We are witnessing the largest escalation of hostilities in Syria in four years,” he said Paulo Pinheiro, Head of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria in the United Nations General Assembly. “Once again there appears to be a complete disregard for the lives of civilians,” often leading to “an eye for an eye” retaliatory measures. The escalation by Syrian government forces is in retaliation for an attack by Drones against a military academy a Homs on Oct. 5 during a cadet graduation ceremony. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least one person was killed 120 people. Women and children are also among the victims.