Continuing bloodshed in Idlib kills 15, including 5 children

Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that 15 civilians, including five children, were killed and dozens injured in Syrian regime air strikes on the towns of Hass and Jericho in the southern countryside of Idlib.

According to the civil defense working in opposition areas, the toll is likely to rise due to the large number of injured, while his teams continue to search for survivors and recover the bodies of victims under the rubble.

The reporter added that the shelling targeted a residential project in the town housing displaced people, which also resulted in extensive destruction of buildings and property.

Haas, Jericho and other areas of Idlib countryside, which were bombed by regime and Russian warplanes, have seen massive displacement of civilians, most of them heading to the border with Turkey.

Idlib province receives tens of thousands of people who have fled their homes in a number of areas of the country because of the fighting or after the restoration of order areas of opposition and armed factions.

Since the beginning of the escalation in recent months, 820 civilians have been killed, according to human rights sources. The bombing has driven more than 400,000 people from their homes, according to the United Nations.

The United Nations and humanitarian agencies have already warned of a new humanitarian disaster in northwestern Syria.

The French Foreign Ministry called for an immediate end to the fighting in Idlib, and condemned in a statement raids on the camps for the displaced.