Airwars assessment
Five civilians, including a child, were killed and more than three others were wounded in alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on the village of Kafar Natin, Aleppo governorate, on March 1st, 2020, according to local sources.
SMART News Agency reported that “five civilians, including a child, were killed and three others wounded on Sunday [March 1st, 2020], by Russian airstrikes on the village of Kafarnatin village, west of Aleppo, northern Syria”.
The Syrian Civil Defence reported that Syrian regime warplanes targeted the homes of civilians in the morning. The SCD in Aleppo reported the names of five killed civilians, including four male adults and a child: Mahdi Al Jarr, Raji Abdullah Hassan, Ibrahim Jameel Al Jarr, Imran Jamil Al Jarr and the child Muhammad Abdul Kafi Mustafa.
SCD Aleppo also identified three wounded victims, all part of the Al Jarr family, and stated there were three more unnamed injured civilians, putting the total toll of injured at six civilians.
Nearly all sources reported Russia as the belligerent, but the Syrian Civil Defence and the Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that the Syrian regime had been responsible.
The incident occured in the afternoon.
The victims were named as:
Family members (6)
- Mahdi Al-Jarr male killed
- Ibrahim Jameel Al-Jarr male killed
- Imran Jamil Al-Jarr male killed
- Jamil Al jarr male injured
- Barakat Jamil Al Jarr male injured
- Zaki Jamil Al Jar male injured
- Raji Abdullah Hassan Age unknown male killed
- Muhammad Abdul Kafi Mustafa Child male killed