<p>White Helmet rescuers rushed to the Maarata Camp, an internally-displaced-peoples (IDP) camp near Maarat al-Numan, following a series of deadly airstrikes that targeted the Idlib provincial area on April 26.</p><p>Idlib-based activists said</a> multiple civilians were killed while dozens of camp residents were reportedly</a> wounded. White Helmet volunteers told local opposition media outlets</a> that they believed that parachute rockets were used in the air raids, which reduced the Maarata Camp to rubble.</p><p>The Maarata Camp is home to at least 3,000 internally-displaced Syrians from the Aleppo, Idlib, and Hama provinces. Some of those residing in the camp were forcibly displaced from the city of Aleppo</a> following the Assad regime’s capture of the city in December 2016. Local activists</a> said that at least 130 families were left homeless in the wake of the air raids.</p><p>Opposition activists in northern Syria said</a> additional airstrikes were carried out in the nearby towns of Khan Shaykhun, Jarjinaz, Kafr Sijna, Aabideen, Hish, and Maarshurin.</p><br />
