Due to the delay in taking the decsion regarding "no-fly zone" in Syria, the Syrian opposition reported Wednesday that at least 80 people were killed and dozens injured when a fighter jet bombed the city of Azaz, near the border with Turkey. The victims included women and children. Following the deadly attack, many families have decided to seek refuge in Turkey, the Associated Press reported.
According to this report, at least ten houses or buildings were collapsed in the bombing, and some are still trapped under the wreckage. Another Syrian human rights group claimed that the number of dead is much higher.
Eyewitnesses said that at least 10 missiles have hit a former local headquarters of the Baath Party, which turned into a base for the Free Syrian Army fighters.
The attack came on the same day the independent international commission of inquiry on Syria released a report accusing regime forces and the pro-regime gangs (shabiha) of war crimes in the killings of more than 100 civilians – nearly half of them are children – in the village of Houla in May.
On Monday, the Deputy Secretary General of UN for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, visited in the Syrian capital, where she met with several government members, including the new Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi.
On the ground, fighting continued between rebels and government forces in Damascus and Aleppo.
State news agency, SANA, reported that Syrian security forces pounded the battleground districts of Saif al-Dawla, Sukari and Salaheddin in the south as well as the eastern rebel-held districts of Sakhur and Tariq al-Bab.
Elsewhere in Aleppo province, one civilian was killed, while 10 civilians, including a child and four women died in shelling in the province of Idlib, the Syrian observatory of human Rights said, after 151 people were killed across Syria on Wednesday.
Opinion:
It was highly appreciated when the whole world interfered to protect Libyans after the death of 200 civilians in Libya. Today, in Syria, number of victims is reaching over 20,000 civilian while the world is still speechless and blind. When will see a serious move towards protecting Syrian civilians? when will we understand that UN mission in Syrian is helpless but on the contrary it is an assistant to the Syrian regime in executing its massacres under international coverage.
Unfortunately, the petrol available in Syria is not enough to buy Syrian's freedom from this bloody regime.
