Geolocation
Airwars assessment
Local media reported that airstrikes (possibly also artillery) struck an area near a school in the city of Hamouriya, Damascus, killing and injuring several civilians, including a high number of children. Reports were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime.
Several civilians (between one and two) were reportedly killed by the strikes. LCCSY reported that: “a child was martyred following Russian raids with vacuum missiles on the town of Hamouriya in eastern Ghouta.”
As many as 12 civilians were reportedly wounded. @abomaherdomair put the number at 10, most them children, adding that an airstrike hit a residential building “near children’s schools”.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights named the school as Basheer Abdul Jawad Primary School. The source added that the building was “rendered inoperable” following the strikes.
Al-Jazeera’s correspondent reported “two dead and dozens wounded in an air and artillery bombardment by Syrian regime forces on the cities and towns of Douma and Kafr Batna and Harsta in the countryside of Damascus.” The source added that the bombing hit a primary school “after the exit of students, causing great destruction”.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the city of Hamouriya (حمورية), for which the generic coordinates are: 33.528464, 36.389472. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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Basheer Abdul Jawad Primary School in Hamoria, Damascus was reportedly hit by the contested airstrikes and was left completely destroyed (via SN4HR)
Syrian Regime Assessment:
Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
Russia has not reported any specific strikes between November 1st – 30th 2016.
On 6 January 2017, Russia, however, reported: “Since November 8, 2016, the aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet consisting of the heavy aircraft carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the large ASW ship Severomorsk, as well as auxiliary vessels of the Black Sea Fleet, has been fulfilling counterterrorist missions on the territory of Syria”, adding that ”in the course of two months of their participation in the combat actions, naval aviation pilots have carried out 420 combat sorties, 117 of them were night ones.”