A Syrian war monitor and rescue workers reported that Syrian regime shelling has killed at least four people in a village in the last rebel held enclave, despite a cease-fire deal in place since last year
The victims in southern Idlib province included two girls and their grandmother.
The White Helmets, the civil defense in opposition areas, said two of their volunteers were also injured in the shelling.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor with activists on the ground, put the death toll from shelling of Serjeh village at five, including three children and a woman.
Violence has been rising in recent weeks in the last-rebel enclave as government troops edge toward restoring control of the territory, home to nearly 4 million people.
The truce was negotiated in 2020 between Turkey, which supports Syria's opposition and has troops deployed in the area, and Russia, the Syrian government's main backer.
At the time, it halted a crushing Russian-backed government air and ground campaign aimed at retaking the region.
UNICEF said 512 children were verified as having been killed in Syria last year, the majority in the northwest where there are 1.7 million vulnerable children, many of whom have fled violence several times. AP
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