{"id":12714,"date":"2019-05-07T14:35:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T14:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/syria-war-un-alarm-at-escalation-of-hostilities-in-idlib\/"},"modified":"2019-05-08T14:31:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:31:13","slug":"syria-civilians-bear-the-brunt-of-escalating-hostilities-around-idlib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/syria-civilians-bear-the-brunt-of-escalating-hostilities-around-idlib\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria: Civilians Bear The Brunt of Escalating Hostilities around Idlib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly the war in Syria has returned to the northwestern region of the country, which had benefitted from a cease-fire since last September. The escalation seems to have been caused by a takeover of the enclave in January by the jihadist alliance Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is in violation of the terms of the cease-fire which required jihadists to withdraw altogether. Although the Pro-Government and Russian forces are purporting to be attacking jihadist positions the sad truth is that in the action 12 medical facilities and nine schools have been targetted either directly or as collateral damage. This has inevitably led to the deaths of Women &amp; Children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syriahr.com\/en\/\">The Syrian Observatory for Human Right<\/a>s, a UK-based monitoring group, has indicated the recent civilian death toll is 77.\u00a0 Forty-Nine rebels and jihadists, and 36 pro-government fighters have also been killed.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly this war shows no sign of ending and this will only heap misery on those already suffering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12734\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12734\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12734\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Syria-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Syria-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Syria-768x314.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Syria-1024x418.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Syria-750x306.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Syria.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Idlib Refugee camp<br \/>Editorial credit: quetions123 \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can send a donation to help those in need <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muslimglobalrelief.org\/\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly the war in Syria has returned to the northwestern region of the country, which had benefitted from a cease-fire since last September. The escalation seems to have been caused by a takeover of the enclave in January by the jihadist alliance Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is in violation of the terms of the cease-fire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1178,1177],"class_list":["post-12714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","tag-idlib","tag-syria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12735,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714\/revisions\/12735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}