In a new violation of the “de-escalation” agreement in northern Syria, 2 children were killed, and 1 civilian was injured in Al-Assad regime’s attack on Kafr Nouran village, western Aleppo.
According to sources from the Syrian Civil Defence (White Helmets), regime forces stationed at the 46th Brigade base, and Iranian-backed terrorist groups carried out a ground bombardment targeting the village of Kafr Nouran, killing two children and wounding one person.
A civil war has continued in Syria since March 18, 2011, when the Syrian regime launched a ferocious campaign of repression against protests denouncing human rights violations in the country.
In May 2017, Turkey, Russia, and Iran announced that they had reached an agreement to establish a “de-escalation zone” in Idlib and parts of the countryside of Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia, within the Astana meetings related to the Syrian issue, however, the Syrian regime forces and their supporters attack the region from time to time, despite the ceasefire agreement signed on March 5, 2020.
Over the past years, the Syrian regime granted citizenship to a large number of members of groups affiliated with Iran for their participation in the war it has been waging on the opposition since 2011.
Millions of displaced people live in camps in northern and northwestern Syria, after fleeing the regime’s bombing of their villages, towns and cities.
It is noteworthy that international humanitarian law prohibits targeting and attacking civilians, whether as a group or as an individual, and emphasises on respecting their lives, physical and mental integrity, protecting them and treating them humanely. All this requires the intervention of the international community and human rights organisations to work to protect the Syrians from the violations they are being subjected to.
