A US-led coalition air strike on the eastern Syrian town of Mayadeen early on Friday killed at least 80 relatives of ISIS group fighters, a monitoring group said. “The toll includes 33 children. They were families seeking refuge in the town’s municipal building,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“This is the highest toll for relatives of ISIS members in Syria,” Abdel Rahman said.
The latest strike came as the United Nations urged all nations bombing jehadi targets in Syria to better distinguish between civilian and military targets.
UN human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said “all states” whose air forces are active in the anti-ISIS missions needed “to take much greater care to distinguish between legitimate military targets and civilians.” The Britain-based Observatory gathered information from civilian and medical sources on the ground in ISIS-held Mayadeen, which was facing its third day of fierce bombing.
According to Observatory, 37 civilians were killed in coalition raids on the town on Thursday, including 13 children, and another 15 had been killed in coalition strikes on Wednesday.