Airwars assessment
Up to 13 civilians were reported killed in alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on Ariha in Idlib, on July 27th, 2019 according to local sources. The airstrikes targeted the western neighborhood and a popular market, and France 24 reported that the airstrikes targeted two residential buildings.
Members of two IDP families from Sinjar and Ma’aret Al-Nu’man were reported killed in the airstrikes. @abdalwhab761 said that the father of one of the families said that he lost 11 members from his family, when asked by a journalist. It is unclear whether they all belong to this incident.
One of the children, Adham badawi, died on July 28th of his injuries sustained as a result of this airstrike.
Zaman Al-Wasl said that the airstrike led to demolishing some houses on the heads of its residents. Syrian Civil Defence said their volunteers pulled bodies of civilians out of the rubble. Local sources expected the real number of victims to be higher as many residents were trapped under the rubble.
Although initial sources cited much lower figures (three), the numbers of those killed rose to nine then thirteen as understanding of the events unfolded – with nine fatalities named by Ariha Today. Of those killed, four to seven were children. A further 22 to 40 were injured in the incident, 22 of whom were named by Ariha Today.
Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that “at least 11 civilians, including seven children and a woman, were killed as Syrian regime warplanes fired several missiles on al Gharbi neighborhood in Ariha city in Idlib governorate southern suburbs, on July 27.”
Ariha Today documented “11 martyrs and more than 30 injuries, mostly children and women, as a result of the airstrike targeting the residential neighborhoods of the city, among the martyrs were displaced people from the area of Sinjar.”
SY-24 raised the death toll to 13, while NPA Syria said that more than 40 others were injured.
Sources accused the Russian forces and/or the Syrian regime in reporting the incident.
Zaman Al-Wasl quoted Walid Aslan, the commander of the civil defense sector in the city of Ariha as saying that ” a warplane belonging to the Assad forces carried out a surprise raid with high explosive missiles this afternoon in the center of Ariha in an area that is considered the most densely populated, which led to the destruction of many homes above the heads of its residents.”
@aboalhodaalhoms tweeted a video commenting “Horrific and cruel scenes from the Ariha massacre today in Idlib countryside, which was committed by the Russian warplanes as if it were a resurrection. New war crimes added to Russia’s criminal record.”
@SyrianCoalition wrote that “there is no justification for international non-action to stop this genocide except the moral fall of the international community.”
The time of the incident is unclear as some sources reported it in the morning, and others in the afternoon.
The incident occured in the morning.
The victims were named as:
Family members (7)
- Anas Mahmoud Al Hassan 17 years old male killed
- Nusseibeh Al Hassan 6 years old female killed
- Ismail Al Hassan 8 years old male killed
- Mahmoud Ahmed al Hassan 45 years old male Lost his whole family and then died in a hospital in Turkey killed
- Maha Al-Hassan 14 years old female Minor injuries injured
- Mohammed Hassan 13 years old male killed
- Samar Al Sagheer 50 years old female killed
Family members (4)
- Anwar Badawi 45 years old male killed
- Muhammad Nour Anwar Badawi 2 years old female 2 or 4 years old killed
- Daughter of Anwar Badawi 1.5 years old female Her leg was amputated injured
- Wife of Anwar Badawi Adult female Minor injuries injured
Family members (4)
- Nour Hardan 7 years old female Injury in the limbs injured
- Reem Hardan 35 years old female Injury in the limbs injured
- Ahmed Hardan 8 years old male Injury in the limbs injured
- Mohamed Hardan 50 years old male injured
Family members (3)
- Rahaf Al-Hussein 9 years old Injury in the limbs injured
- Hanan Al Hussein 10 years old Injury in the limbs injured
- Uday Al Hussein 7 years old Injury in the limbs injured
Family members (4)
- Ahmed Haloum 35 years old male Head injury injured
- Rand Ahmed Halom 3 years old female Multiple shrapnel injured
- Adham Ahmed Halom 5 years old male He died on July 28th of his injuries killed
- Ahmed Ahmed Haloum 15 years old male injured
- Fares Qaddah 40 years old male killed
- Anas Al-Khalif 24 years old male killed
- Enas Al Khalaf 8 years old female Injury in the face injured
- Hamida al-Hamd 10 years old female Injury in the limbs injured
- Walaa Khalid Al Mahmoud 6 years old female Injury in the limbs injured
- Abdel Hamid Lababidi 40 years old male Hand injury injured
- Abdullah al-Shami 35 years old male Limbs injury injured
- Aya Al Hassan 13 years old female Hand injury injured
- Mohammed Mohammed Al-Deeb 15 years old male injured
- Warda Haj Youssef 30 years old female injured
- Fadi Shubat 20 years old male Limbs injuries injured
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Image Caption: "A body of a victim of the massacre in Ariha city in Idlib caused by Syrian regime bombing: Image showing a civil defense member carrying a child who was killed in fixed-wing Syrian regime warplanes bombing on al Gharbi neighborhood in Ariha city in Idlib governorate southern suburbs, causing a massacre, on July 27." (via Syrian Network for Huamn Rights) -
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The body of a young man under the rubble of a destroyed house in the city of Ariha, near Idlib, in the north of the country, where nine civilians were killed and more than 28 were wounded, Saturday, July 27, 2019, with raids by Syrian regime warplanes on residential neighborhoods in the city. (Caption and image copyright SMART, published in the public interest). -
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A man stands near the body of a young man among the rubble of a destroyed building in the city of Jericho, near Idlib, in the north of the country, where nine civilians were killed and more than 28 others were wounded, Saturday, July 27, 2019, as a result of raids by Syrian regime warplanes on residential neighborhoods in the city, coinciding with the flight of 12 warplanes Affiliated to Russia and the regime over Idlib Governorate. (Caption and image copyright SMART, published in the public interest). -
Members of the Syrian Civil Defense near the body of a civilianو searching for victims among the rubble of a demolished apartment building in the city of Ariha in the aftermath of Syrian regime or Russian forces airstrikes on the city on July 27th, 2019. (Copyright SMART. Published in the public interest).
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Civilians and members of the Syrian Civil Defense wrapped the corpse of a civilian in a cloth cover amid the rubble of a demolished apartment building in the city of Ariha, near Idlib ,as a result of alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on the city on July 27th, 2019. (Copyright SMART. Published in the public interest.)
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Civilians and members of the Syrian Civil Defense wrapped the corpse of a civilian in a cloth cover amid the rubble of a demolished apartment building in the city of Ariha, near Idlib ,as a result of alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on the city on July 27th, 2019. (Copyright SMART. Published in the public interest.)