28 June 2018•Update: 28 June 2018
By Mohamed Misto
DARAA, Syria
At least 25 civilians were killed Thursday in airstrikes carried out by the Assad regime and its allies on cities and towns in Syria’s southern Daraa province, according to a human rights group.
“Twenty civilians, including at least five children, were killed in an airstrike on the town of Al-Musaifera in Daraa’s eastern countryside,” Nabaa, a Syrian human rights NGO, said in a Thursday statement.
Three other civilians were killed in Daraa’s town of Dael, the group added, while another two lost their lives in the town of Nawa in Daraa’s western countryside.
One day earlier, dozens of civilians were killed in separate attacks by the regime and its allies throughout the southern province, Amer Abu Zaid, a local civil-defense official, told Anadolu Agency on Thursday.
On the same day, Russian jets hit a hospital in the outskirts of Daraa and left one dead, 14 injured; total number of civilian deaths has now reached 55 in the last two days since the Syrian regime and its allies launched military campaign aimed to retake rebel-held Daraa.
For the last 10 days, Daraa has been subject to intense aerial bombardments and ground attacks, with Syrian regime forces -- backed by Shia militia groups -- capturing the towns of Busra al-Harir and Nahta.
Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating conflict that began in 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with unexpected ferocity.
