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Airwars assessment
Between 10 and 14 civilians including two to three children and one woman died in an airstrike on Binnish which struck a mosque, a market and houses, according to multiple local sources. The majority of reports point to this being the work of the Assad regime, though others, like LCCSY, alleged that Russia was responsible. Some sources did not identify the planes that carried out the attack.
Step News posted a video saying that a warplane raid in a market in Binnish led to a massacre. An initial report by the Shaam News Network blamed the regime, saying that the town of Binnish – next to Al Faw’a – was one of the locations supposedly covered by a cessation of fighting under the “Al Faw’a – Al Zabadanii” agreement. It added that “Assad warplanes violated this agreement several times”.
Activists told SNN that the targeting of civilian homes killed 10 individuals and wounded 20 more. They named Abdul Ghaffar Harb, a military commander of Ahrar al-Sham (Al Qaeda) as a victim. A further report by the network said that activists had documented the death of an entire family when the Al Sheikh Sh’eib mosque was struck by “warplanes“. (This time it did not identify them.)
The victims were named as Muhannad Abdul Khaliq and his wife and two children. SNN added that a third child of the family – “no more than seven years old” – was in intensive care in a hospital on the Turkey border. Two raids were reported, one of which was on the mosque. They put the death toll at 12, and said that most of them were passers-by in front of the mosque. Several other sources also reported the death of two children, though in a tweet by Gnat it was said that three children from the same family were killed.
SNN also published a video showing the strike and aftermath, which they said had been carried out by “Sukhoi 24” warplanes. Other media organisations also posted footage:
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights did not identify the warplanes responsible, but said that at least 10 died, including two children “and a military commander of a battalion belonging to the Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham“. It later posted a video on Twitter, showing the destruction caused. A video posted by Orient News showed what they said was a vacuum missile flying through the air and striking the mosque. It alleged that it was the work of the regime.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights also attributed the incident to the regime, and put the death toll at nine civilians. The White Helmets reported at least 10 non-combatants killed, but did not say who was responsible.
Two additional victims were named by the Violations Documentation Center. It blamed Russia.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Family members (4)
The victims were named as:
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Binnish (بنش), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.958429, 36.711587. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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Bodies are lined up following a strike on Banis, May 10th (via SNN)
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Abdul Baset Abdul Salam Jabaq (via VDC)
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Saad Mustafa Ameen Astaifi (via VDC)
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Three children killed all from same family in suspected Russian warplane shelling in Binnish. (via Gnat) -
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Three children killed all from same family in suspected Russian warplane shelling in Binnish. (via Gnat) -
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Victims of the airstrike. (via SNN)
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Aftermath of the airstrike. (via SNN)
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Aftermath of the airstrike. (via SNN)
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victims died in government warplanes missiles fired on Binnish city in Idlib governorate, May 10. (via SNHR)
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government warplanes (allies) fired missiles on Al Sheikh Shu’ayeb Mosque in Binnish city in Idlib governorate, causing a massacre, damaging the mosque severely, and rendering it inoperable, May 10. (via SNHR)
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The civil defence in the southern Aleppo countryside helps the civil defence team in Idlib to pull out the martyrs resulting from the massacre at Binsh. (via White Helmets)
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The civil defence in the southern Aleppo countryside helps the civil defence team in Idlib to pull out the martyrs resulting from the massacre at Binsh. (via White Helmets)
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The civil defence in the southern Aleppo countryside helps the civil defence team in Idlib to pull out the martyrs resulting from the massacre at Binsh. (via White Helmets)
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The civil defence in the southern Aleppo countryside helps the civil defence team in Idlib to pull out the martyrs resulting from the massacre at Binsh. (via White Helmets)
Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
Russia has not reported any strikes between May 1st – 31st