Jub al-Quba mortar massacre

Activist claims

 * Ahmad Alkhatib ‏@AhmadAlkhtiib on Twitter (photos)
 * ''Breaking: @SyriaCivilDef 45 Civilians killed by artillery shells targeted gathering of Civilians who flee areas controlled by #Assad
 * Ahmad Alkhatib ‏@AhmadAlkhtiib on Twitter (video)
 * ''45 Civilians killed early this morning by #Assad shells while they're trying to flee from East to West besiege #Aleppo
 * Ahmad Alkhatib ‏@AhmadAlkhtiib on Twitter (video)
 * ''Feel the pain. My mom died here my sister also, another sister we don't know where she is. My wife is the best she's gone now
 * Rudaw English ‏@RudawEnglish on Twitter (photos)
 * '' #Syria: Rescue teams search site of blast following Syrian regime airstrikes on residential areas of Jub Al Quba neighborhood, Aleppo.
 * Massacre due to suspected Russian shelling on Jub Al Quba- Bab Al Nayrab road in Aleppo city, November 29 - Syrian Network for Human Rights
 * ''SNHR: at least 17 victims died due to suspected Russian warplanes missiles fired the road leading to Jub Al Quba neighborhood from Bab Al Nayrab neighborhood in Aleppo city, November 29, 2016.
 * Massacre due to government forces shelling on Jub Al Quba neighborhood in Aleppo city, November 30 - Syrian Network for Human Rights
 * ''At least 25 civilians died in government artillery shells fired on displaced families in Jub Al Quba the besieged neighborhood in Aleppo city, November 30, SNHR yet unable to verify the details of the news, 2016.

Video

 * مجزرة جب القبة 30/11/2016 - Syrian Civil Defense - Aleppo
 * #شاهد مجزرة حي جب القبة في مدينة حلب المحاصرة التي راح ضحيتها أكثر من 40 شهيداً - Aleppo Media Center
 * النظام و روسيا يرتكبان مجزرة مروعة في حي جب القبة في حلب راح ضحيتها 50 شهيداً - Orient News,

Western media

 * BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the fighting in Syria (all times local): (12:00 p.m.)
 * ''Syrian activists say at least 21 people have been killed in an artillery barrage on a housing area for those displaced in rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
 * ''The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group says the Wednesday morning attack struck the Jub al-Quba district, where residents displaced from government advances on other areas of the city have sought protection.
 * ''It said it occurred near the site of a government air strike that killed at least 20 the day before.
 * ''The Syrian Civil Defense search-and-rescue group put the toll at 45 dead. It accused government forces of being behind the attack.

Pro-government claims

 * Fares Shehabi ‏@ShehabiFares on Twitter
 * ''NATO backed "moderate" rebels in E Aleppo commit a massacre against fleeing civilians at one safety corridor set up by the Syrian army!
 * Fares Shehabi ‏@ShehabiFares on Twitter, December 1, 2016
 * ''Civilians from E Aleppo confirmed that Omar Salkho of Zinki gang is the one who carried the attack on the safety corridor 2d ago.

Location
جب القبة -جب قره مان (translit jabb alqubbat -jb qurh man) On Wikimpaia - a narrow east-west strip just east of the government-held citadel.
 * Aleppo –Jub Al Qubba: Al Swas Mosque destroyed by ogv helicopters barrel bomb 1 May 2015 - Syrian Network for Human Rights (video)
 * حلب- جب القبة : اثار الدمار مسجد السواس Alep- Jub al-Quba : dommage causé à la mosquée al-Sawas - Association for the Protection of Syrian Archaeology, May 31, 2015 (video)
 * صور أثار إلقاء الطيران المروحي لبرميل متفجر على مناطق في حي باب النيرب بمدينة حلب، والذي أسفر عن إصابة 4 مواطنين بجراح بينهم 3 أطفال - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, May 31, 2015
 * "Photo Effects dumping helicopters to barrel bomb on the areas of Bab Neirab neighborhood of Aleppo, which wounded four civilians were wounded, including three children"

Context
Aleppo had in recent days seen a rapid diminishing of rebel-held territory, with government forces reclaiming about a third of all areas within a few days in late November, including a water pumping station rebels had used to shut off reliable water to the residents of West Aleppo (citation needed). RT reports 80,000 civilians had been "saved" in these changes. But according to pro-opposition sources and western media, this has been a "slow-motion descent into hell" for residents of East Aleppo (CNN reports, quoting Bettina Luescher, a spokeswoman for the UN World Food Programme). CNN reports:
 * Around 600 people have been killed in eastern Aleppo since Saturday, activist sources have told CNN, including 45 on Wednesday, according to the Aleppo Media Center activist group. In western Aleppo, eight others were killed Wednesday, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported.

Rebel fighters and some civilians had retreated into their shrinking core. The reports allege it was some 45 of these civilians who were killed in an early-morning airstrike on their new shelter.