A boy, identified as eight-year-old Khalil Saleh al-Khatib, was killed on May 27, 2024, and his father critically injured, by the explosion of a landmine of as yet unidentified source, in an agricultural land to the west of their home city of al-Sheikh Miskeen in northern rural Daraa governorate. The area is under the control of Syrian regime forces.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) is still trying to locate eyewitnesses to obtain more information about the incident.
We call on the controlling forces to uphold their responsibilities for protecting civilians in areas under their control, and to locate and remove landmines planted in these areas. We have documented hundreds of deaths and injuries resulting from landmine explosions, which pose a serious, long-term threat, especially to children, that will last for years to come.
