Monitor: Syrian regime strikes kills 17 civilians in Palestinian refugee camp

BEIRUT — Syrian regime air strikes and shelling kill 17 civilians including seven children on Friday in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in southern Damascus, a Britain-based monitor says.

Government forces have intensified their bombardment of Yarmouk and surrounding neighborhoods since April 19 as they battle Islamic State group jihadists there, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor says.

— AFP

A MI24 Syrian army helicopter drops barrel bombs over southern Damascus in the area of the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk on April 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Rami Al Sayed)

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