Several killed in gov’t attack on hospital in Syria’s Idlib

Five civilians, including a child, were killed after government forces fired on a hospital in the rebel-held province.

Syrian government artillery fire killed five civilians, including a child, when it hit a hospital entrance in Syria’s last major rebel bastion of Idlib, Turkey’s defence ministry and a war monitor said. The attack on Sunday on the northwestern town of Atareb came despite a Russian-Turkish ceasefire since March 2020, supposedly to protect the wider rebel-held stronghold. The shelling “hit the courtyard and main entrance of the hospital inside a cave, killing five civilians including a child and a hospital employee,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.