The attack on the northwestern town of Atareb came despite a Russian-
It "hit the courtyard and main entrance of the hospital inside a cave, killing five civilians including a child and a hospital employee," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Eleven others were maimed including healthcare staff, said the Britannia-based monitoring group's head Rami Abdel Rahman.
The Idlib region is home to 2.9 million people, of whom two thirds have been displaced from their homes by conflict, the United Nations
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is controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
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The ceasefire brokered by opposition-backer Turkey and regime ally Russia last March stemmed a months-long regime military offensive on the bastion that killed hundreds of civilians and displaced more than a million people from their homes.
It has since largely held despite repeated violations including Russian air strikes on the region, according to the Observatory.
Medical facilities have been hit multiple times in the Idlib region during the war.
Between 2016 and 2019, the World Health Organization documented up to 337 attacks on healthcare sites in Syria's northwest.
The war has killed more than 388,000 people and displaced millions at home and abroad since starting in 2011 with the brutal repression of peaceful anti-government protests.
Seventy percent of healthcare workers have fled Syria since the start of the conflict, while after years of bombardment only 58 percent of hospitals remain fully functional, the UN says.