A boy, identified as three-year-old Rami Mohammad al-Faraj, was killed, while three other children were injured, on May 9, 2024, by the explosion of a bomb left by an older attack of as yet unidentified source. The bomb denotated when the children found it near their house in Rami’s home village of al-Mentar in the rural areas of Jisr al-Shoghour city in western rural Idlib governorate and started playing with it, setting it off. The area is under the control of armed opposition factions and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) notes that war remnants continue to pose a serious threat to civilians’ lives. We have released numerous reports on cluster munitions and other war remnants, calling for securing equipment to help local residents to safely dispose of the various explosive remnants. We have also recorded the use of anti-personnel landmines (APLs) by Syrian regime forces, posing a serious threat to anyone in the vicinity, especially children, for years to come. We have recorded hundreds of injuries that resulted from cluster munition remnants. The international community must intervene to protect the civilians in Syria from the ongoing bloodbath.
