ICC Note: Atrocities continue in Syria as a refugee camp in the northern Idlib province was targeted by an airstrike killing at least 28 people. The Kamouna camp is home to internally displaced peoples (IDP) fleeing the bloody civil war, among them Christians fleeing ISIS. It is not clear who led the attack but the crimes can amount to War Crimes according to the UN.

05/06/2016 Syria (BBC): An air strike on a Syrian refugee camp that reportedly killed at least 28 people could amount to a war crime, a senior UN official has told the BBC.

Stephen O’Brien, the UN humanitarian affairs chief, called for an inquiry into the attack on the Kamouna camp in the northern Idlib province.

Syrian or Russian forces are suspected. Syria’s military denied involvement in the strike on a rebel-held area.

Thursday’s attack came a day after the extension of a truce was confirmed.

The Syrian military and non-jihadist rebel forces had agreed to a temporary truce around the city of Aleppo, following pressure from the US and Russia.

But the UK-based monitoring group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), reported an upsurge in fighting between Syrian forces and al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadists close to Aleppo, killing more than 70 fighters from both sides.

The insurgents, including the al-Nusra Front, seized the strategically important village of Khan Tuman back from government forces, which had captured it in December, according to rebel sources and the SOHR. The Syrian army denied the reports, Reuters news agency said.

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