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(Previous Incident Codes: R3957RS4196)
On November 24th, 2019, a man and a women were wounded in an alleged Russian or regime airstrike on Heesh town, Idlib. Local sources and social media reported on the airstrike.
HalabTodayTV reported “A man and a woman were injured in a Russian air strike targeting the town of Heesh in the southern countryside of Idlib”. The White Helmets also reported “A man and woman were injured in the town of Heesh southern idlib after aerial bombing of Russian Warplanes targeting civilian homes on Sunday.”
Various other sources also referred to “civilians” as being injured but did not specify how many people were injured.
A tweet from @QasiounAr identified barrel bombs as being used in the attack and @ZaitunAgency pointed out that the strikes occurred in the vicinity of the Turkish point.
The majority of sources attributed the strikes to Russia while @NEDAAPOST blamed the regime.
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Reports of the incident mention the town of Heesh (حيش), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.547312, 36.643567. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.