At least 5 civilians were killed, and 7 others were injured in the ground bombardment by the regime forces on Kanaker town in the Damascus countryside.
Following clashes that broke out between local armed groups and regime forces in the town of Kanaker; the regime forces bombed several locations in the town, and the shells hit a bus carrying civilians, and other homes in the town, killing and wounding 12 civilians.
A civil war has continued in Syria since March 18, 2011, when the Syrian regime launched a ferocious campaign against protests denouncing human rights violations in the country.
In May 2017, Turkey, Russia, and Iran announced 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, in exchange for their participation in the war it has been waging against 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 a group or an individual, and emphasises respecting their lives and physical and mental integrity, protecting them and treating them humanely, which requires the intervention of the international community and human rights organisations to protect the Syrian person from the violations they are exposed to.
