News Center_ The danger surrounding the lives of children in Syria is increasing due to the absence of deterrent laws and the failure of current legislation to secure their physical and psychological protection, amid a notable escalation in crime and violence rates, leaving children facing a grim fate amid near-total impunity for perpetrators.

Several Syrian areas have recently witnessed six horrific crimes that claimed the lives of children under harsh circumstances, causing deep tragedies for their families. These incidents come simultaneously with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documenting the killing of 35 children in the country since the beginning of this year.

Yesterday, Sunday, 27 September, the Observatory confirmed that these six crimes — which ranged between assault and beating, torture, burning, strangulation, and mysterious killing — reflect the scale of the grave dangers threatening the lives of Syrian children, whether within their family environment or in places presumed to be safe. Simultaneously with these tragedies, popular and human rights demands are escalating for the necessity of opening serious and urgent investigations to uncover the circumstances of these cases and hold those involved accountable.

The details of these assaults are distributed temporally and geographically as follows:

On the tenth of last July, in As-Suwayda governorate specifically, the child Lujain Qintar was killed after being subjected to assault and burning inside her grandfather's house. In the same month, the body of the child Farah Ammar Al-Hamoud was found inside a hay warehouse two days after her disappearance in Daraa.

In last August, in Deir ez-Zor governorate, the child Ghala Khamis Saleh Al-Khamis was found dead as a result of strangulation inside an orchard located behind her family's house in the town of Al-Bu Amro. In the same month, the body of the child Aseel Rifaat Khattab, seven years old, was found inside an abandoned apartment in the city of Al-Dumayr in Rural Damascus, days after she went missing.

On the second of this September, an 11-year-old child was subjected to violent physical assault with multiple tools inside her home in Aleppo governorate. In the same month, a child in the town of Al-Husseiniya in Deir ez-Zor governorate died from beating and severe torture at the hands of her father.

These successive crimes come amid escalating human rights and popular demands to open urgent official investigations to uncover the circumstances and hold the perpetrators accountable.

The Observatory confirmed that the nature of these crimes requires that they not be dealt with as isolated incidents, but as dangerous facts requiring accountability. It demanded that the concerned authorities open serious and transparent investigations into the crimes that targeted children, disclose the results of the investigations, hold those responsible accountable in accordance with the law, and strengthen