Taher Nabil al-Atma, child aged 14, was killed on December 14, 2022, by a munition from a previous bombardment whose source we have not been able identify yet. The blast, which injured four other children as well, occured in an agricultural land near the child’s home village of al-Karak al-Sharqi in the eastern suburbs of Daraa governorate. The village is under the control of Syrian regime forces.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights stresses that the remnants of such weapons continue to pose a serious threat to civilians’ lives. We have released numerous reports on the issue of cluster munitions and other weapon remnants, in which we called for providing the necessary equipment to help local residents with removing explosive remnants.
We have also documented the repeated use of antipersonnel landmines by Syrian regime forces, which continue to pose a major, long-term threat to residents, especially children, which will last for years.
We have recorded hundreds of injuries resulting from these weapons and cluster munitions remnants. The international community needs to intervene to protect civilians in Syria from the ongoing bloodbath.
