UNICEF censures massacre of children in northern Syria

The UN’s children agency has condemned the massacre of children in northern Syria days after air strikes by the US-led coalition claimed the lives of over 50 civilians, including nearly a dozen kids there.

In a statement on Thursday, UNICEF highlighted the deaths of dozens of children in and around the Daesh-held city of Manbij in Syria’s Aleppo Province.

“No matter where they are in Syria or under whose control they live - absolutely nothing justifies attacks on children,” said the statement.

On July 19, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 56 civilians lost their lives due to the air strikes by the US-led coalition near the village of al-Tukhar, situated close to Manbij.

The intensified air strikes were reportedly conducted by the so-called multinational task force against Daesh, a coalition led by the United States which claims to help Kurdish and Arab fighters in their ongoing drive to recapture areas from Daesh in Aleppo.

Scores of people, most of them civilians, have been killed in the attacks.

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