Syrian government has conducted nearly 7,000 air strikes during the month of July, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, making it the most intense bombing reported in one month since the beginning of the conflict in 2011.
At least 6,673 air strikes were recorded during the month of July, including 3,654 barrel bombs dropped by government helicopters on 13 out of 14 Syrian provinces, the UK-based monitoring group said in its report on Saturday.
Damascus suburbs and Idlib province were the most targeted provinces, according the Observatory, which has a network of activists on the ground.
At least 791 civilians were killed due to these air strikes, including 207 children below the age of 18. At least 3,000 others were injured while thousands were forced to flee their homes as a result.
During the period between October and July this year, the Observatory recorded at least 26,517 air strikes, including 14,393 barrel bombs - which left almost 5,000 civilians killed, 1,000 of them children.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights, another group monitoring the war, recorded a total death toll of 1,674 during the month of July - over half of those killed are women and children.
The network said that the rising death toll is an indicator that government forces has been “deliberately and indiscriminately targeting civilians”.
Syria has been named as the most dangerous country in the world by the Global Peace Index. In 2008 the country classes as the 88th most peaceful country out of 126 nations included in the table.
