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Syrian forces’ Barrel bombs and airstrikes don’t distinguish between children, adults, males, females, civilians, or rebels. These weapons threaten and kill tens if not even hundreds of Syrians everywhere on a daily bases. This statement details and condemns the death of an entire family, who was killed in Dael, Daraa Suburbs, by regime’s barrel bombs.
On Saturday July 5th, 2014, a helicopter dropped barrel bombs against the city of Dael, which is located in Western Daraa and is 25 Km away from the center of Daraa. The fourth barrel bomb that was dropped killed an entire family; a father, a mother, and six children the oldest of whom was 13-year-old, and the youngest was two-year-old.
This family was killed in the holy month of Ramadan. They are originally from Nawa in western Daraa and they fled to Dael due to the clashes, constant shelling, and the airstrikes against the city of Nawa. The family fled from death to find it elsewhere as such scenarios became the story of most Syrians.
The names of the victims are:
- Child Rim Bashar An-Nassrllah, female (two-year-old).
- Child Rasha Bashar An-Nassrllah, female (eight-year-old).
- Child Omar Bashar An-Nasrllah, male (ten-year-old).
- Child Nour Bashar An-Nasrllah, male.
- Child Rama Bashar An-Nasrllah, female (12-year-old).
- Child Yara Bashar An-Nassrllah, female (13-year-old).
- Fatima Yahya As-Saqr, mother (36-year-old)
- Bashar Mohammad An-Nasrllah, father (fourty-year-old).
Nawa, the city which the family left behind is under sieged and is witnessing constant clashes at its borders. On July 7, 2014, six barrels bombs were dropped against it during the time people prepare for fasting. As a result many people are forced to flee the city of Nawa, just like the family of An-Nasrllah, and running away for safety in the neighboring cities and villages.
In addition, a helicopter dropped a barrel bomb near DCHRS office in the southern areas on 8:38 PM which resulted in material damages.
We, in DCHRS, strongly condemn these acts and urge the U.N. to press on the Syrian regime to stop targeting civilians and take immediate actions to protect them from the deadly indiscriminate shelling and all other kinds of weapons that are ceaselessly targeting civilians every day.
The crimes of Al-Assad have reached an indescribable limit and the numbers of civilian victims are horribly high especially now that they are being targeted in the holy month of Ramadan. Subsequently, Syrian regime forces launch their attacks targeting civilians during the time people break their fast and the time prepare for fasting in order to make their lives miserable.
Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies
Issued on: 10-07-2014
Images of the Victims of An-nasrllah Family
For more information, please contact
Dr. Radwan Ziadeh, Executive director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies.
Phone (571) 205-3590
(571) 205-3590
Email : radwan.ziadeh@gmail.com
Mr. Mojahed Ghadban, Communication Officer.
Telephone (479) 799-8115(479) 799-8115
Email: info@dchrs.org
DCHRS is an independent, non-governmental organization, established in 2005, located in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Its mission is to foster a spirit of support and respect for the values and standards of human rights in Syria. As such, DCHRS recognizes and adheres to all pertinent international human rights agreements and declarations issued by the UN.
DCHRS is a member of the following international networks:
- International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
- Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN)
- NGO Coalition for the international Criminal Court
- International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP)
- International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC)
DCHRS worked on a variety of documentation projects. Such projects included daily casualty reports, massacre reports, and other human rights violations reports. Also DCHRS has been working on advocacy and lobbying in different human rights institutions in order to educate and acknowledge about the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria.. After the launch of the Syrian revolution, the center increased its activities through working, communicating, and coordinating with many members and activists. Thus the center began documenting daily violations committed by the Syrian regime forces that can be classified as crimes against humanities and war crimes. Such violations included: extrajudicial killings, massacres, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, rape, torture in prisons. DCHRS opened local offices in Syria in order to document, collect, and observe human rights violations on the ground. DCHRS submitted those reports to many international and regional human rights organizations and communicated with the Report of the independent international commission of inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic on Syria.