{"id":11268,"date":"2018-08-12T15:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T15:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11268"},"modified":"2018-08-12T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T15:24:19","slug":"netanyahu-demands-total-gaza-cease-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11268","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu demands \u2018total\u2019 Gaza cease-fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1355071\/middle-east\" readability=\"53\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: An explosion of unknown origin at a weapons depot in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib killed at least 12 civilians on Sunday, a war monitor said.<br \/>An AFP correspondent at the site in the rebel-held town of Sarmada near the Turkish border said the explosion caused two buildings to collapse.<br \/>On Sunday morning, rescue workers used a bulldozer to remove rubble and extract trapped people, the correspondent said.<br \/>Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor, said the death toll could rise as dozens were still missing.<br \/>\u201cThe explosion occurred in a weapons depot in a residential building in Sarmada,\u201d the head of the Britain based monitor said.<br \/>But the cause of the blast was \u201cnot yet clear,\u201d Abdel Rahman added.<br \/>A rescue worker carried the motionless body of a small child from the wreckage to an ambulance, the AFP correspondent said.<br \/>Behind mounds of rubble, the facade of a building was scorched black, due to a fire after the blast.<br \/>A civil defense source told AFP that women and children were among the dead.<br \/>But rescue workers had pulled out \u201cfive people who were still alive,\u201d the source said.<br \/>Most of Idlib is controlled by rebels and jihadists led by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, but the Daesh group also has sleeper cells in the area.<br \/>The regime holds a small slither of southeastern Idlib.<br \/>In recent months, a series of explosions and assassinations \u2014 mainly targeting rebel officials and fighters \u2014 have rocked the province.<br \/>While some attacks have been claimed by Daesh, most are the result of infighting since last year between various other groups.<br \/>In recent days, regime forces have ramped up their deadly bombardment of southern Idlib and sent reinforcements to nearby areas they control.<br \/>President Bashar Assad has warned that government forces intend to retake Idlib, after his Russia-backed regime regained control of swathes of rebel held territory elsewhere.<br \/>Around 2.5 million people live in the province, half of them displaced by fighting in other parts of the country.<br \/>More than 350,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since Syria\u2019s civil war started in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: An explosion of unknown origin at a weapons depot in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib killed at least 12 civilians on Sunday, a war monitor said.An AFP correspondent at the site in the rebel-held town of Sarmada near the Turkish border said the explosion caused two buildings to collapse.On Sunday morning, rescue 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