ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A displaced persons camp in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib was reportedly bombed by warplanes, killing five women and a child. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights conflict monitor reported on Sunday that, besides the dead, others were also injured by missiles that struck their camp, situated in the southern Idlib countryside near the village of al-Khwyn. The Observatory also reported that warplanes bombed other areas in Idlib, including the villages of al-Alya and Kafrdbin in the Jisr al-Shughur countryside in the province’s west and the outskirts of Ariha city in the province’s southeast. There have been no reports of any casualties from these raids. Although the Observatory did not specify which warplanes carried out the raids, it has been Syrian and Russian jets that have been frequently bombing opposition groups in Idlib and Aleppo. Most of Idilb province has been occupied by the Jaish al-Fatah, a coalition of Islamist groups that oppose the Syrian regime. The regime, on the other hand, claims all of its air raids in Idlib and Aleppo are aimed at hitting terrorists, never civilians. On Saturday, the Syrian Network for Human Rights non-governmental organization (NGO) released a report claiming that 1,176 civilians were killed in Syria in the month of September, including 192 children and 163 women. “Regime and Russian forces have violated human rights law that guarantee the right to life,” the NGO charged. Last Thursday, the Syrian ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Ja’afari, denied that the regime has been responsible for killing civilians. “The Syrian government is not bombing civilians. These people are our own people. We don’t bomb civilians, we don’t kill civilians,” Ja’afari claimed.
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