On 29 September 2017, aircraft attacked Armanaz and killed at least 35 people, including at least 3 children, according to 5 witnesses and photos and video footage analyzed by
Human Rights Watch
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The
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
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reported that the death toll included 8 children and 8 women.
Prelude
The Syrian and Russian air forces carried out several attacks which hit civilian targets in the days prior to this one, killing 18 people in
Qalaat al-Madiq
Qalaat al-Madiq ( ar, قلعة المضيق also spelled Kal'at al-Mudik or Qal'at al-Mudiq; also known as Afamiyya or Famiyyah) is a town and medieval fortress in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Hama Governorate, located north ...
on September 20 and 19 people, including at least 2 children, in
Jisr al-Shughur
Jisr ash-Shughūr ( ar, جِسْرُ ٱلشُّغُورِ, jisr aš-šuġūr, , also rendered as ''Jisser ash-Shughour'' and other spellings), known in antiquity as Seleucobelus ( el, Σελευκόβηλος, translit=Seleukóbēlos), is a city i ...
on September 25.
The attack
At around 8:30 pm, an aircraft dropped several munitions on a residential neighborhood close to the Al-Zahra mosque in Armanaz. At 10 pm, an aircraft returned and bombed the same location again, which forced the rescuers to abandon the scene. 30 residential buildings were destroyed in total.
Video published online allegedly showed rescuers pulling children's bodies from the rubble.
Reactions
Human Rights Watch
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called on belligerents in the
Syrian conflict to refrain from using enhanced blast weapons like fuel-air explosives in populated areas.
See also
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List of massacres during the Syrian Civil War
This is a list of massacres committed during the Syrian civil war.
2011
* Between 31 July and 4 August 2011, during the Siege of Hama, Syrian government forces reportedly killed more than 100 people in an assault on the city of Hama. Opposit ...
References
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Mass murder in 2017
Idlib Governorate in the Syrian civil war