Rescuers and activists said the Syrian government shelled the last rebel enclave in the country’s northwest on Wednesday, killing at least seven people, including four children.

Rescuers and activists said the Syrian government shelled the last rebel enclave in the country’s northwest on Wednesday, killing at least seven people, including four children.

The attack, on a day of heavy rain, targeted Idlib city and two towns, to the north and south.

A child was killed when a shell landed near a weekly market in the city of Idlib, according to the Syrian Civil Defence, a volunteer rescue team also known as the White Helmets, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor.

The shelling in Idlib and surrounding areas wounded 17, according to Ahmed Sheikho, a spokesman for the White Helmets.

In the town of Ariha, to the south, four people were killed, including a four-year-old child, Sheikho said.

In Kefraya to the north, two children were killed, the Syrian Observatory and the White Helmets said.

The shelling comes as an eight-month truce negotiated between Turkey and Russia is unravelling.

Syria’s government and its allied forces have resumed operations in recent weeks, including carrying out an air strike in late October on rebels in the area that killed dozens of Turkey-backed fighters at their training camp.

SOURCE: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/4/shelling-in-syria-rebel-enclave-kills-seven-including-children