Airwars assessment
At least one civilian, a 10 year old girl, was killed and one or two of her siblings were injured in alleged Russian and/ or regime artillery or rocket strikes on the village of Hmeimat on July 12, 2021.
@IdlibPlus reported on “the death of a girl and the injury of two other children as a result of heavy artillery shelling by the regime forces based in or near Jorin camp on Hmeimat village”. A video published by the same outlet (see below) showed at least five apparent targets struck in the village.
The deceased victim was named by @spc_fr as Jamila Yasser Al-Jassem, who it said was killed during an attack on the Jorin camp within the village. OGN Arabic published a video of Jamila which it said had been taken just 24 hours before her death. @anasanas84 said that Jamila was ten years old, while local source Hadi Khraat said the two unnamed injured victims were also from the same family.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported one child killed and one injured in the attack, noting: “A girl, named as Jamileh Yaser al Jasem, was killed and her brother was injured when Syrian regime artillery forces fired shells on Hmaimat village in Sahl al Ghab in the western suburbs of Hama governorate on July 12, 2021. SNHR notes that this shelling is a breach of the ceasefire agreement reached following consultations between the Turkish and Russian presidents, which came into effect on March 6, 2020.”
The local White Helmets instead reported “that the bombing led to the killing of a girl and the injury of two girls from the same family,” according to Syria TV. Instead, Fresh Syria News said both siblings were brothers of Jamila.
The Anadolu Agency blamed the attack on regime forces, noting that two injured children were treated at a local hospital. According to Enab Baladi News, the attacks began at dawn: “At five in the morning, the Al-Ghab Plain witnessed artillery shelling that focused on the villages of Hemeimat, Qastoun, Qalidin, and Zaqqum, north of the Al-Ghab Plain, according to what Ammar Abu Al-Hassan, a worker at the Unified Observatory in northern Syria, told Enab Baladi. As a result, civilian homes were destroyed, especially in the village of Hmeimat, which received the largest share of the bombing. The source of the artillery bombardment was members of the regime forces located in the Jorin camp and the village of Al-Darabila, northwest of Hama governorate.”
The incident occured at approximately 5:00 am local time.
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Image of Jamila (circled) via @anasanas84