The UN human rights chief on Friday condemned "international indifference" in the face of mounting deaths in Syria, warning that those responsible for air strikes targeting civilians could be charged with war crimes.
Since late April, the Syrian regime and Russia have stepped up deadly raids on the Idlib region of three million people, a jihadist-held bastion in the country's northwest.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said she was alarmed at "the apparent international indifference to the rising civilian death toll caused by a succession of airstrikes in Idlib."
"Intentional attacks against civilians are war crimes, and those who have ordered them or carried them out are criminally responsible for their actions."
More than 730 civilians have been killed in Idlib in air strikes and ground-to-ground fire by the Damascus government and its allies since late April, according to the
Bachelet said that even as "airstrikes kill and maim significant numbers of civilians several times a week" the international "response seems to be a collective shrug, with the Security Council paralysed."
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