KAFR JALES, Syria — Syrian rocket fire on
Sunday killed 10 people including three children at makeshift camps for
displaced people in the country’s last major rebel-held bastion, a war monitor
said.
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The dead included
eight civilians and two unidentified individuals, said the Britain-based
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, revising up an earlier toll of nine killed.
Another 77 people were reported injured in bouts of
rocket fire.
More than 30 rockets exploded in the morning in
several areas, including the camps, situated west of the city of Idlib in
Syria’s northwest.
Shelling continued later in the morning at several
locations in the area, and rebels targeted government positions in retaliation
for the strikes, according to the observatory, which has a broad network of
sources on the ground.
In the late afternoon, the Syrian military launched
a new round of strikes on Kafr Lata in southern Idlib, killing one person and
injuring three others while they were picking olives, the monitor said.
The monitor said the shelling came in response to
renewed fire from the
Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) terrorist group, headed by
ex-members of Syria’s former Al-Qaeda franchise.
The last pocket of armed opposition to the Syrian
government includes large swathes of Idlib province and parts of the
neighboring Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia provinces.
HTS is the dominant group in the area but other
groups are also active.
According to the observatory, the rocket fire came a
day after five Syrian forces members died in shelling by a group affiliated
with HTS.
The Idlib region is home to about 3 million people,
around half of them displaced.
They are among the millions displaced internally and
abroad by the war in Syria since 2011. Nearly half a million people have been
killed.
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