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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 18 July 2018

Displaced Syrians march close to Israel; airstrike kills 10

By SARAH EL DEEB He blamed the airstrike
BEIRUT (AP) — Dozens of on Russia, Syrian President
Syrians displaced by a Bashar Assad's top ally.
government offensive The Britain-based Syrian Ob-
marched toward the Israel- servatory for Human Rights,
occupied Golan Heights in which monitors Syria's civil
a rare peaceful protest on war through a network of
Tuesday, shortly after a sus- activists on the ground, put
pected Russian airstrike hit the death toll from the air-
a school serving as a shelter strike at 14, including four
in southwestern Syria, killing women and five children.
at least 10 people, accord- The Observatory said 180
ing to activists. civilians have been killed in
The marchers waved white fighting in the region since
flags at Israeli soldiers June 19.
as they walked toward Syrian government troops,
the frontier in the Golan backed by Russian forces,
Heights, demanding pro- have stepped up their at-
tection from the relent- tacks on the remaining op-
less airstrikes, before they position pockets in the re-
turned back. gion, launching over 1,500
The brief protest came as shells and airstrikes in the
Syrian and Russian airstrikes last two days alone, ac-
have intensified in the Qu- A Syrian soldier stands guard at his post overlooking the Damascus-Aleppo highway in Rastan, cording to the Observatory.
Homs province, Syria, Tuesday, July 17, 2018.
neitra countryside and the Associated Press In the border march, Moaz
southwestern Daraa prov- al-Assaad, a photographer
ince. lometers (4 miles) from the Khaled Solh of the Syrian being used to shelter fami- in Quneitra, said by the
Tuesday's airstrike hit in the Israeli frontier, according to Civil Defense group, also lies that were forced to flee time he made it to the fron-
village of Ain el-Tineh in Qu- a Syrian search and rescue known as the White Hel- their homes amid the fight- tier with Israel, the protest-
neitra province, about 7 ki- team. mets, said the building was ing in southwestern Syria. ers had dispersed. q