A/HRC/28/69 indiscriminately by Government helicopters flying at high altitudes. Government barrelbombing also killed civilians in Qadi Askar neighbourhood in January, June and October 2014. 50. As the Government’s aerial bombardment in Dara’a governorate has intensified, civilian casualties has climbed. Between June and August, Government rocket and barrel bomb attacks on Tafas killed civilians. In one incident in August 2014, a barrel hit a home that was close to a market, killing nine members of the same family. In early August, an attack on Samlin hit a family home, killing a 12-year-old girl. 51. Multiple reports were received of civilians killed in Government attacks in locations across Dara’a in October 2014. On 9 October, Government forces fired rockets into the Tariq Al-Sad neighbourhood of Dara’a city, killing a six-year-old boy and critically injuring his two sisters, 7 and 2 years old. In Al-Mahata market in Dara’a city, civilians were killed in a barrel-bombing attack in mid-October 2014. On 19 October, a family of five living in an armed-group-controlled neighbourhood were killed when a barrel-bomb landed on their house as they sat down to dinner. 52. On 4 October, two civilians were killed and twelve others injured when a Government artillery shell hit a vegetable shop in Inkhil. Two weeks later, on 19 October, two farmers working their fields outside of Al-Mezeireeb village were killed by a rocket launched by a Government plane. Attacks on Al-Mezeireeb, resulting in further civilian casualties, reportedly continued on in November 2014. 53. Civilians have also been killed in indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks by the Government on ISIS-controlled areas of Aleppo, Ar Raqqah, Dayr az Zawr, and Al Hasakah governorates. 54. On 18 October, Government forces hit Al-Mahdom Bakery in Minbeij (Aleppo), killing approximately 25 civilians working there. The Government has intensified its rocket and barrel bomb attacks on Ar Raqqah governorate in recent months. On mid-October and in late November, civilians living in Raqqah city were killed in indiscriminate airstrikes by Government forces. One attack on an industrial area east of Raqqah city on 25 November, resulted in extensive civilian casualties. 55. In July, civilians were killed in an airstrike on Al-Ashara (Dayr az Zawr). On 3 August, a Government airplane struck Al-Tayanna (Dayr az Zawr), killing six civilians. Also in August, airstrikes seemingly targeted a municipality building being used as an ISIS base in Al-Mayadin. The strike also hit a nearby market. This attack killed thirteen civilians in the market at the time. On 3 September, a Government jet struck an ISIS checkpoint near Al-Shula. While killing ISIS fighters, the disproportionate attack also killed 21 civilians, most of them children, who were in a bus at the checkpoint at the time. 56. Fighting has surged among Government forces, ISIS, YPG and local militias in neighbourhoods of Hasakah city and in towns and villages south of Qamishli. In August 2014, as ground fighting between the YPG and the Ahrar Al-Ghweran armed group was taking place in Al-Ghweran neighbourhood of Hasakah city, Government forces shelled neighbourhoods indiscriminately, resulting in civilian casualties. On 12 August, 11 civilians were killed, including one child who bled to death following injuries from heavy shelling by Government forces. Findings 57. Government forces perpetrated massacres and unlawful killings as part of a widespread attack directed against the civilian population. The attack included widespread shelling and bombardment of civilian-inhabited localities and the targeting of civilians for arrest, detention and disappearance on the basis of their association or perceived opposition to the Government. It is a continuation of the attack on the civilian population identified in 33