At least five civilians perished Sunday in Syrian regime artillery fire targeting a hospital in the northwestern town of Atareb, despite a ceasefire in effect for more than a year. year in the region, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH).
“The regime’s forces launched six shells on the city of Atareb” located in the province of Aleppo, bordering the governorate of Idleb, told the media the director of OSDH, Rami Abdel Rahmane, also reporting eleven wounded.
The strikes targeted “the courtyard and the entrance to the hospital (…) located inside a cave, killing five civilians, including a child and a hospital employee”.
Eleven others were injured, including health workers.
The jihadist group, the former Syrian branch of Al-Qaida, and a few rebel groups control around half of the Idleb region and adjacent segments in the neighboring provinces of Aleppo, Hama and Lattakia in the north of the country. Syria. This region is home to around three million inhabitants, half of whom have been displaced from other regions recaptured by the regime.
