“The commission found no evidence that the deceased was anyone other than a civilian or that he directly participated in the hostilities, and is awaiting the results of the investigation carried out by the United States,” TASS quotes in a report presented in the 54th session. of the UN Human Rights Council.
The report’s authors described the incident as “a violation of the precautionary principle in an attack, either due to inadequate planning or insufficient verification of the intended target.”
Recall that in early July, the US Central Command announced on Sunday that it had carried out an attack with an MQ-9 drone, as a result of which the leader of ISIS was killed in eastern Syria (the group is recognized as terrorist and is banned in the Russian Federation). “The US Central Command launched an attack in Syria that killed Osama al-Muhajir, the leader of ISIS in eastern Syria,” the report said, without specifying the details of the operation to eliminate the group’s leader.
