Airwars assessment
On the morning of Friday, 6th October 2023, three children belonging to one family were injured by the bombardement allegedly carried out by the Russian military and/or Syrian regime forces in the village Jaftlik Haj Hammoud in the Jisr al-Shughur countryside, west of Idlib. A two-year old child named Amer Mustafa al-Abdo later died from the serious injuries. The two surviving children were reportedly brothers.
Jist media center posted a Facebook video showing the strike and clouds of smoke arising from it. The Syrian Civil Defense (SCD) attributed the responsibiliy for the incident to the Russian military and reported that their team took the injured children to the hospital for treatment. Two of then who did survive were still receiving treatment. SCD also reported that there were no other injured people.
The @SyrianCivilDefe on Twitter/X social media platform added the images of the destroyed building and a striking image of an elderly man, a grandfather of the children, astonished and sitting on the ruins of his house, picking up among the rubble with deep pain and sadness from the death and injury of his grandchildren. Al Jazeera correspondent Hadi Kharrat also shared a touching image of a tiny ginger kitten who survived the bombardment. But, as Hadi wrote, both the kitten’s mother and his friend Amer were killed.
While most of the sources attributed the strike to Russian military, a correspondent from the Al-Arabiya Syria said on Facebook that both the Russian forces and the Syrian army renewed their bombing in the city of Idlib, adding that the casualties from the attack in the village of Jaftlik were a result of the Syrian army artillery shelling. Therefore, the Airwars graded both Strike Status and Civilian Harm Status as Contested.
The incident occured in the morning.
The victims were named as:
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Source: @SyriaCivilDefe
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Source: @SyriaCivilDefe
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Source: @SyriaCivilDefe
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Source: @SyriaCivilDefe
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Source: @SyriaCivilDefe
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Source: Hadi Kharrat
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Source: Sarmeen
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Source: Sarmeen
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Source: Sarmeen
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Source: Sarmeen
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Source: Syrian Civil Defense
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Source: Syrian Civil Defense
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Source: Syrian Civil Defense
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Source: SANA_Agency
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Source: Syrian Civil Defense
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Source: Anas Al-Abd
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Source: Arabic Syria
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Source: Baraa Darwish
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Source: Baraa Darwish
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Source: Baraa Darwish
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Source: Al Hadath Syria
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Source: Arabic Syria
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Source: @HalabTodayTV
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