On November 25, 2023, Syrian regime artillery forces fired multiple shells at Qoqfin village in Jabal al-Zawiya in southern rural Idlib governorate. The attack resulted in a massacre, in which 10 civilians from two families were killed, including seven children and one woman, while the two families were picking olives, with one elder woman also wounded in the attack.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) notes that through this attack, Syrian regime forces have again unequivocally violated UN Security Council resolutions 2139 & 2254, both of which categorically prohibit indiscriminate attacks, as well as violating the rules of international humanitarian law on distinguishing between civilians and fighters. Such attacks aim solely to spread fear and panic among civilians.
