International Coalition warplanes kill about 30 people the majority of whom are children and women, and about half of them are from one family

Al-Raqqah Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the death toll continues to rise as a result of the bombardment of the International Coalition on areas in Al-Raqqah city, which is the stronghold of the “Islamic State” organization in Syria, and of which the control of the organization has shrunk to about 45% of the city’s area, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the rise of number of people who were killed in the city to at least 29 during the 24 last hour in Al-Raqqah city, including 9 citizen women and 14 children under the age of eighteen, and 14 persons of them are from one family, they were killed in bombardment by the International Coalition warplanes on the city, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published two days ago that it documented the death of 1455 persons, including at least 523 civilians, among them an activist from the SOHR as well as 112 children, 68 women in al-Raqqa city, who were killed and documented by the SOHR in al-Raqqa city and its countryside since the launch of the Grand Battle of al-Raqqa on the 5th of June 2017 until today August 6, 2017. The martyrs are 507 civilians including at least 109 children below the age of 18 and 64 women over the age of 18, who were killed in al-Raqqa city, as well as 16 civilians including 3 children and 4 women who were killed in raids on Zor Shamar village and another area at the southern banks of the Euphrates River in al-Raqqa eastern countryside. The aerial bombardment also caused injury of hundreds of civilians with varying degrees of severity, while some of them have amputated limbs and permanent disabilities, and some of them still in serious conditions and the death toll are suggested to increase. Scores of houses, utilities were also destroyed in the city due to the indiscriminate bombardment that targeted al-Raqqa city and its vicinity and outskirts, while more civilian martyrs were reported but the SOHR couldn’t document them.