After killing 17 civilians today in massacres east and south of Idlib, warplanes and the regime forces still target the province
Idlib Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the regime forces continue their violent campaign on Idlib Province, by intensely bombarding and shelling it since the dawn on Sunday the 28th of January 2018, where the Syrian Observatory monitored the warplanes and helicopters carrying out more airstrikes on the southern, eastern and southeastern countryside of Idlib, where they targeted areas in Maarrat Al-Nu’man city, its outskirts and surroundings, Khan Shaykhun city, Abu al-Duhur town, Saraqib, al-Hableh, Abu Makki and Hish, which caused material damage but no information about casualties, in conjunction with renewed missile shelling on Khan Shaykhun city and the outskirts of Jisr Al-Shughur city in the western countryside of Idlib, while it rose to 6 (they are 3 children, 2 women and a man), the number of people who were killed today in the massacre that was carried out by warplanes that bombed areas in Maarrat Al-Nu’man city, rising to 17 casualties, including 5 children and 2 women, the number of people who were killed today in the massacres of warplanes in Saraqib, Maarrat Al-Nu’man, Kafr Nubl and Sheik Mustafa.
And with the death of more citizens, it rose to 159, the number of the citizens whose death was documented by the Syrian Observatory in the bombardment by the warplanes and helicopters, and the shelling by the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them on areas in Idlib countryside, including at least 45 children below the age of eighteen and 34 women citizens over the eighteen, since the 25th of December until today the 28th of January 2018, while tens of others were injured with permanent disabilities and sever injuries, which may increase the death toll, and the shelling also caused destruction of hundreds of houses and shops and properties, in addition to the damage to destruction in the infrastructure of areas which witnessed heavy shelling, in Idlib, Hama and Aleppo.