A day after a Chinese-Russian veto ... killed and wounded by raids of the regime and Russia in Idlib

Al-Jazeera correspondent said that the death toll from the bombing of the Syrian regime and Russia on the cities and towns of Idlib countryside has risen to 11 civilians, including children and women.

He added that the popular market in the city of Saraqib was subjected to a Syrian aerial bombardment, which resulted in a large number of injuries.

Russian aircraft also targeted residential neighborhoods in the city of Maarat al-Numan, which houses tens of thousands of displaced people who fled the fighting in the northern Hama countryside.

Since the week of December 16, 2001, the United Nations has estimated that tens of thousands of civilians have fled from the Ma`rat al-Numan area to safer areas in the north.

The Headquarters for the Liberation of Al-Sham (formerly the Nusra Front) controls the greater part of Idlib Governorate, and less influential Islamist and opposition factions are also active in it.

The shelling coincides with ongoing clashes since Thursday between the regime forces on one side and the Headquarters for the Liberation of Al-Sham and other factions on the other side in the vicinity of the city of Maarat al-Numan.

Although an armistice agreement was reached last August, whereby a large-scale offensive by the regime forces was halted for four months in Idlib, the governorate has been subjected for weeks to shelling that has increased in frequency and is being waged by Syrian and Russian warplanes.

Last October, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, on his first visit to the province since the conflict erupted in 2011, confirmed that the Idlib battle was the "basis" for resolving the war in Syria.

Idlib and its environs host about three million people, about half of whom are displaced from other areas. Tens of thousands live in random camps and depend for their livelihood on aid provided by international humanitarian organizations.

But Russia and China used veto power Friday in the Security Council against a draft resolution to extend the license granted to the United Nations to provide cross-border humanitarian aid to Syria, which is supposed to expire on the tenth of next month.

Several organizations rushed to condemn the decision, which, if implemented, would cut off UN aid to Idlib Governorate, which is witnessing a new wave of displacement as a result of the recent escalation of the regime forces.