The Syrian government and its allies have killed at least 103 civilians in the past 10 days, including 26 children, according to the United Nations, while Damascus yesterday expressed its categorical rejection of the content of the ongoing US-Turkish talks on the establishment of an area In the north of Syria, considering that any understanding in this context is an "attack" on the sovereignty of Syria.
"These are civilian targets, and in light of the ongoing pattern of such attacks, it seems very unlikely that their bombing was a mistake," said UN human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet, referring to the military escalation in Idlib. Bachelet pointed out that the high death toll corresponds to «clear international indifference».
The latest raids targeted "medical facilities, schools and other civilian infrastructure such as markets and bakeries," she said.
The province of Idlib and adjacent areas, where live about three million people, an escalation in the bombing of Syria and Russia since the end of April, accompanied by fierce fighting concentrated in the northern Hama.
On the other hand, the United Nations announced that more than 400 thousand people were displaced during three months of escalation northwest of Syria, as the government forces intensified shelling of the area controlled by militant factions.
"More than 400,000 people have been displaced since the end of April," said David Swanson of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
A statement by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance that the displaced leave especially in the south of Idlib and northern Hama province, and generally heading to sectors not affected by shelling north, and sometimes reach areas close to the border with neighboring Turkey, which includes camps for the displaced.
"The IDP camps are overcrowded and many are forced to stay in the open air," the statement said. "About two thirds of the displaced are outside the camps."
The statement stressed that «towns and villages are empty of its inhabitants who fled in search of safety and basic services».
On the other hand, a source in the Syrian Foreign Ministry, according to quoted official news agency «SANA», that his country «reaffirms its categorical rejection of any form of US-Turkish understandings» on the establishment of a buffer zone in northern Syria.
And considered it «constitutes a flagrant attack on the sovereignty and unity of Syria land and people, and flagrant violation of the principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations».
He reiterated his country's strong condemnation of "the continuing destructive American intervention in Syria, which aims to prolong the crisis and complicate it."
This came two days after Ankara announced its dissatisfaction with Washington's proposals during the talks on the establishment of a buffer zone.
This comes at a time when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that Turkey is determined to destroy the "corridor of terrorism" east of the Euphrates River in Syria, regardless of what will come to talks with the United States on the establishment of a safe area planned in northern Syria.
"Those who put their trust in the foreign powers in the region will be placed underground," Erdogan told members of the ruling AK Party. We will find a permanent solution to terrorism ».
Bachelet pointed out that the rise in the death toll in Idlib corresponds to "a clear international indifference."