The Syria Civil Defense documented 392 attacks by the regime, Russia, and their allied forces on areas in northwestern Syria during the first half of this year.

These attacks resulted in the death of 38 civilians, including 13 children and six women, in addition to injuring 150 civilians, including 57 children and 16 women.

According to a statement by the Syria Civil Defence rescue agency on Thursday, July 11, Russian warplanes escalated their attacks on the Idlib countryside yesterday, targeting the non-functional vocational high school on the outskirts of Jisr al-Shughour in western Idlib with two airstrikes at night, causing significant damage to the school without civilian casualties.

A woman also lost consciousness due to fear following a similar Russian bombing that targeted a civilian residence used as a family pool on the outskirts of the town of al-Hamama near the Ahil Saraqib camp, in the same countryside, with two airstrikes, damaging the residence and three uninhabited tents of the displaced in the camp.

120 suicide drone attacks

In addition to other attacks documented in the report, the Syria Civil Defence recorded about 120 suicide drone attacks launched from regime-controlled areas, targeting northwestern Syria, resulting in the death of three civilians and injuring 18 civilians, including two children, during the first three months of the year.

Active military observatories in northern Syria, including Observatory 80, mentioned that Russian planes raided the outskirts of Jisr al-Shughour last night with vacuum bombs, coinciding with the Russian reconnaissance aircraft flying overhead. Meanwhile, regime-affiliated suicide drones targeted a civilian car in the village of Farkia, in southern rural Idlib, this morning.

In the same context, regime forces targeted the outskirts of the villages of Maarat al-Naasan in northeastern rural Idlib and Khirbet al-Naqus in northwestern rural Hama with suicide drones.

Additionally, the villages of Kafr Ammah and al-Qasr in western rural Aleppo were subjected to shelling from regime checkpoints in the vicinity, amidst warnings to civilians in the villages and towns close to the contact lines to be cautious of the intensified movement of drones, with a call to limit movements and gatherings and to conceal vehicles, as per the military observatory.

The Civil Defence statement emphasized that the escalation of attacks on northwestern Syria, their continuation, the threat to lives, and the undermining of livelihoods, along with the absence of justice, accountability, and a political solution in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 2254 warns of a new wave of displacement amid declining humanitarian response, proving that Syria cannot be safe with the continued impunity for egregious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law, and the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity.