Airwars assessment
Three to seven civilians were killed, including a family of seven, and six others, including women and children, were injured in airstrikes against the village of Hayr al-Sabi near the town of al Dana in northern Idlib according to local activists. Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame, some attributing blame to Russia, while the others blamed the Syrian regime.
The date of the incident is contested. Step says 06:am on 25th, however, some tweets appeared night of 24th and others early on 25th. The first tweet was 9pm on 24th.
Some sources have only reported that a family of three was killed, including a mother, father and a son, however others put the numbers as high as seven.
An interview with one of injured residents ‘Abu Mahmoud’ goes as follows. “I heard a noise of a plane then a noise of a missile – I couldn’t hear the plane anymore- I was sure it was a missile. Most residents were sleeping on their roofs. It is an entirely civilian area there are no militants here. The result of the raid, as you can see, the house was totally flattened. There were about five injured and five martyrs. In our neighbours house there were two people injured.”
An interview with another resident ‘abu Hussein’ goes as follows:, “This is my house. We suddenly heard a plane we looked up and the missile fell. These are civilian home there is no free army and no one else. It is civilian homes.”
Footage shows huge fires in the aftermath of the raid, which occurred at dawn.
The incident occured at 6:05 am local time.
The victims were named as:
Family members (3)
- Tayseer Ahmad al-Namer Adult male killed
- Ahlam Fares Shihadeh Adult female killed
- Ahmad Tayseer al-Namer Child male killed