Up to 10 civilians, including at least four children, were reportedly killed in alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on Jisr Al Shughour, Idlib governorate, on July 10th, 2019. Around 10 civilians were injured.
@AJArabic tweeted: “Six civilians were killed and 10 others were wounded, most of them women and children, by Russian-Syrian airstrikes on the city of Jisr Al Shughour in Idlib countryside.”
Numerous sources documented the targeting of residential areas and a hospital. Euphrates Post cited “six victims and a number of wounded civilians, mostly women and children, as a result of the targeting of Jisr al-Shughour, including two air raids with three rockets aimed at residential areas and the city’s hospital, and a double raid targeting civil defence teams and ambulance crews, causing heavy damage.”
@AlkhaleejOnline reported that seven civilians were killed and that “dozens” were injured, @mahmoodtalha22 wrote that 10 civilians were killed. Sa’aer Khodair reported the names of five killed victims and nine injured civilians, adding that two unidentified children were also injured. The Syrian Human Rights Committee documented that four of the five identified fatalities were children.
Syrian Network for Human Rights also documented the damage to the hospital, and stated that “at least six civilians, most of whom are from the same family – including four children (one male and three female) and a woman – were killed, as Syrian regime warplanes fired missiles on al Jam’iya neighbourhood, south of Jisr al Shoghour city, on July 10th.”
Syrian Network for Human Rights names Alaa Ziad Dablou as one of those killed in the airstrike. Numerous sources refer to ten injured in the attack, including media worker Munir al Hajji. Al Haji posted a video where he is seated in an ambulance and talking about how the strikes targeted his home directly, wounding him, his wife and a number of relatives, as well as killing others.
Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that “Jisr al Shoghour Surgical Hospital, known as al Kalawi Hospital, supported by Syrian Expatriate Medical Association” was damaged in the incident, which “partially destroyed the building, damaging its equipment and burning its electricity generators.” According to this source, “as a result, the hospital went out of service, on July 10th.”
According to Orient News correspondent, “the hospital was the only one in the city, serving nearly 75,000 people in the city and its countryside, as well as receiving about 400 patients.”
As some sources, such as Arabic Mojahedin, attributed the attack to Russian forces, others, including Orient News. named the Syrian regime as the belligerent responsible for the airstrike. @AJArabic, among others, referred to both the Syrian regime and Russian forces in reporting the incident.
Human Rights Watch latest report published in October 2020 mentioned the attack on the hospital in the city saying “On July 10, 2019, between 9:33 and 9:38 a.m., two munitions landed simultaneously, the first near the gate to the Surgical Hospital’s ambulance entrance, near the hospital’s generators, and the second 60 meters south of the main hospital building and ambulance parking lot, according to Human Rights Watch’s analysis of satellite imagery and available videos and photographs. The hospital had been fully operational at the time, treating about 4,500 people per month, with 60 patients and 27 staff present during the attack. The attack killed at least five civilians inside a nearby building and another in front of that building. At least nine others were wounded, with wounds ranging from superficial cuts to crushing injuries.”
The incident occured between 9:30 am and 9:38 am local time.
