3-month-old infant among civilian martyrs of US airstrikes

Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Writing to Zaman English by Yusra Ahmed

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Activists have circulated on social media photo for Mahmood Jomaa. the 3-month-old infant who was killed with his mother by U.S.-led airstrikes on Idlib Tuesday morning.

The infant was wearing a pajama with “twitter” word printed on, which provoked activists to comment: “let's twitter his photo as the first victim of Twitter. It seems that his mother had prepared him to die so she put him in American clothes”

Another added: “Mahmood twittered with a twitter on his chest, he passed away by shelling by who been for years falsely claiming protecting.

Another twitter said: “Mahmood Moaz Jomaa was not killed by Assad or ISIS, but the American strike of Syria killed him” and carried on saying sarcastically: “well done obama, Syria and Iran are proud of you and America today”

Activist Abdul Rahman Kilani commented on the infant’s photo saying: “Children always die for us, tiny bodies needed to complete adult’s crimes, another bird was martyred by the American strike on Idlib countryside.

Zaman al-Wasl obtained information showed that 3 children were killed by the air strike on Deir Derian near Turkish borders to the North of Idlib, they are Mahmood Mohammed Moaz, and two sisters “Zaynab and Maha Mohanna Barakat”, as well as 3 other children, with no information about their identity

Another three children of the same family were injured “Ahmad, Malak and Wafa Mohanna Barakat”. They were displaced from Azaz in Idlib countryside, and their building was targeted, then they were transferred to Turkish hospitals via Bab al-Hawa crossing point.

American airplanes targeted another 4 residential houses occupied by Syrian families in Kafr Ajom in Aleppo's countryside. All houses become on ground and many civilians were killed including women and children.