IDLIB: Syrian government forces shelled tent settlements housing families displaced by the country’s conflict in the rebel-held northwest, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens, opposition war monitors and first responders said.
The shelling was the latest violation of a truce reached between Russia and Turkey in March 2020 that ended a Russian-backed government offensive on Idlib province. Idlib is the last major rebel-held stronghold in Syria.
The truce has been repeatedly violated over the past two years killing and wounding scores of people.
No immediate comment was available from Russia or its allies in the Syrian army, which says it targets the hideouts of insurgent groups and denies attacking civilians, Reuters reported.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, reported that government forces fired about 30 rockets toward rebel-held areas.
Those areas included the Maram camp and other camps just northwest of the provincial capital of Idlib, where nine were killed and 77 wounded. It said the dead included three children and one woman.
Another man was killed and several wounded in the southern countryside of Idlib while picking olives, the observatory reported.
(VOA)
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