The US-led coalition regularly carries out airstrikes in eastern Deir ez-Zor province and has recently been concentrating its air power on Hajin.
The coalition’s activities in Syria are not authorized by the Syrian government, nor by the UN Security Council.
The Thursday airstrike of the US-led coalition on Syria’s eastern province of Deir ez-Zor killed 11 members of one family, Syrian state media reported. The coalition has pounded the town of Sha’afa.
Last year, the SANA agency reported that the US-led coalition used prohibited cluster bombs in recent airstrikes on Hajin and Shaafa. Previously, multiple Syrian media reports alleged that toxic white phosphorus munitions had also been used in the coalition’s repeated attacks in the region.
The US Defense Department has dismissed the allegations as false, maintaining that the coalition’s airstrikes in Syria conform with the laws of armed conflict.
The Syrian authorities have repeatedly urged the United Nations to take measures targeting the perpetrators of the attacks and put an end to the coalition’s unauthorized presence in Syria.
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