Airwars assessment
During the evening of Saturday, December 30, 2023, artillery shelling allegedly carried out by the Syrian regime forces and/or Russian forces and/or Iranian forces struck the city of al-Atareb in the western countryside of Aleppo, Syria. While the Syria Civil Defence (SCD) initially posted to X that they inspected the areas surrounding the strike and confirmed no casualties, the account released an update 28 minutes later, announcing that a child had been “lightly injured” by the shelling.
Following SCD’s reporting, the Syrian News Agency, al-Sharq News, al-Muharrer Media Network, and others shared on X and Facebook that a child was injured as a result of the artillery shelling.
The SCD also shared that one of the shells fell in a lumber yard that sold “firewood to one of the residents, and the other fell near it on agricultural land.”
Images shared by the SCD on X and Creative News on Facebook showed the lumber yard at night. From the images, hundreds of pieces of chopped wood are visible, lying before a kind of double-locker storage facility. Based on these images, it appears that the strike hit the piles of wood outside of the storage lockers. One of the images shared by Creative News also included the piles of wood, with a green band saw settled in between them, and a little footpath leading to what appears to be an outdoor nursery area housing small trees and shrubs.
Where sources considered responsibility for the strike, all but one attributed the strike to the Syrian regime/Damascus government forces. Only one source, Editor Moment by Moment, posted on Facebook attributing responsibility to both the “#Russian and #Iranian occupation.”
The incident occured in the evening.
Summary
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Source: @SyriaCivilDefe
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Source: @SyriaCivilDefe
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Source: @SyriaCivilDefe
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Source: @SyriaCivilDefe
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Source: Creators News posT
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Source: Creators News posT
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Source: Creators News posT