Al-Jazeera correspondent said that 6 civilians, including 3 children, were killed as a result of artillery shelling by the Syrian regime forces targeting the countryside of Idlib in the northwest of the country, in light of the regime's recent escalation.
Al-Jazeera correspondent added that all the dead were from one family, and that the bombing targeted residential neighborhoods in the town of Maarat al-Naasan in the eastern countryside of Idlib, and the artillery shelling resulted in other wounded, some of whom are in serious condition.
The Associated Press quoted residents of Maarat al-Naasan as saying that the family who died in the bombing was outside their house to eat breakfast before the bombing began on their house.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that the town, which is under the control of the opposition, is located northeast of Idlib city, and is close to regime-controlled areas.
According to the same observatory, a person was killed - today, Saturday - in missile strikes by the regime forces on the town of Taqad in the western countryside of Aleppo.
child victims
The White Helmets Organization (Civil Defense) of the Syrian opposition says that 65 children have been killed as a result of the Russian-backed Syrian regime's bombing of Idlib province in the past 6 months.
The bombing comes in light of a campaign of escalation of bombing carried out by the regime forces on the areas controlled by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and other factions of the armed Syrian opposition, and the bombing targets Idlib governorate and the related countrysides of Aleppo, Latakia and Hama, although the northwestern area of Syria is covered by the cease-fire concluded between Ankara and Moscow March 2020.
Since 2011, Syria has been witnessing a war that has killed about half a million people, caused massive destruction to infrastructure and productive sectors, and led to the displacement and displacement of millions of people inside and outside the country.