(Previous Incident Code: R4409)

One civilian, a child, was killed and up to ten other civilians were injured as a result of an alleged Russian or Syrian regime strike, during a raid on October 27th 2021, which struck an IDP camp in Termanin, in the northern countryside of Idlib, Syria.

Whilst Al Souria Network’s correspondent reported that in a “preliminary outcome” ten people had been wounded, in the same article, the Syrian Civil Defense team was reported to have said that four other children and a woman were wounded. Other sources, such as @mhmdfaisel tweeted that the number was seven.

According to multiple sources, the camp houses women who were widowed. One local source, @RamiMu7ammad posted a video to Twitter with the caption, “this mother lost her husband and home, had to flee and live in an IDP [Internally Displaced Persons] camp for widows and orphans and now she lost her child.” Her child has been identified as Bassam Hallaq, seven years old. Her other children, Bassam’s sister, Batoul Hallaq, 13 years old, was also wounded in the attack and a source, Syriansae, posted on Faceook that she had to have her leg amputated. Fatima Hallaq, their other sibling, was also pictured at hospital after being injured in the attack.

The_whitehelmets posted a photo of her on Instagram, in her hospital bed which said, “Fatima will wake up soon to find that those moments were her last with her brother Bassam.”

The three others who were reported to have been wounded are two children, Maryam Sheikh, 13 years old, and Salama Muhaimid, eleven years old, and Fadela Dawoud, a woman, who was 52 years old.

Some sources added that the shelling was laser-guided Krasnopol shells, although other local sources, such as @freeehsem tweeted that the attack was as a “result of rocket-propelled grenades launched by Bashar al-Assad’s gang.”

It has been reported that the responsibility lied with with either the Syrian regime or the Russian forces. For example, Al Souria Network reported that “activists circulated pictures and video clips that they said were of Russian planes.” Al Muharrah Network differed with their picture, instead stating that their correspondent “in Idlib said that Assad’s forces, staioned in the 46th Regiment, west of Aleppo, targeted a camp for widows.”