(CNN) The Syrian army is launching "intensive strikes on dens of Jabhat al-Nusra," a group formerly affiliated with al Qaeda, in a village in southwestern Idlib province Sunday, Syrian state media is reporting.

The escalation in violence in Syria's last rebel-held province in recent weeks has prompted the displacement of more than 180,000 people in the territory and killed more than 120 people, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Three hospitals were bombed on Saturday in Syria's northwestern Idlib and Hama, bringing the total to 16 in the past two weeks alone, the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (UOSSM) said Saturday.

But SANA, the country's state-run news agency, stated Saturday that the army's operations destroyed multiple sites purportedly belonging to Jabhat al-Nusra in the southern Idlib countryside.

The army killed and injured "a number of terrorists who had breached the de-escalation zone agreement through repeated attacks on military points and safe towns," SANA reported.

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