the regime of President Assad is taking
back control of Italy province in
Northwest Syria one village at a time
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this is how villagers here survived
government attacks in what appears to be
the deliberate tracking and targeting of
civilians this is know who we've already
met hiding in a basement in the village
of merit hammer in November with him is
his friend Ali who reassures a young boy
he'll be fine
but just a few months ago Ali's brother
was killed by an airstrike in the same
village
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brother was killed
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Hammoud we find a Facebook posting
saying he refused to leave the village
so he could provide bread to its
residents for the past year we've been
investigating what appears to be the
deliberate targeting of civilians in
Italy province
pro-regime media goes to tremendous
lengths to show it's only targeting
terrorist competence President Assad and
his Russian backers have launched an air
and ground offensive on rebel-held
territory the village of merit Hama is
firmly in the government sites amid the
destruction we pinpoint a brief piece of
footage filmed by a Syrian Army drone it
appears to unravel the regime's claim
that it's only targeting terrorists we
analyze what looks like an airstrike by
comparing it with satellite images we
trace this exact location to a building
in merit Hama this is where Ali's
brother Hammoud died the footage
provides little detail about what's
happening on the ground so we tracked
down people who were there this is the
aftermath of that attack shot by local
journalists on the 1st of July two
bodies in civilian clothing lay in the
street
her mood is found in a doorway just a
few meters away with the sound of war
phone still overhead rescuers scramble
to help our team decide to go to Merritt
Hummer to track down ally and to try to
find out more about the incident
it's too dangerous to drive cars fear as
they are easy to target so everyone uses
motorbikes the team notice a couple of
rebel soldiers but most of the people
they see are civilians
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they reach the site of the airstrike
where the regime claims it was targeting
terrorists
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there's no visible evidence of weapons
or a terrorist hideout this is the
doorway where Alice said her mood died
and neighbors say this was the bread
sellers house and shop the team confirms
this with his mother who they tracked
down in a nearby village
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the interview is cut short after just 8
minutes the crew believe they become a
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subsides but the painful memory of what
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human story in the dying days of this
war the tiny number of survivors and the
ruins are the only witnesses my retama
tells a bitter truth the stories of
death far outnumber those of survival as
the airstrikes continue this is now a
war running short of targets
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