Coincided with de Mistura consultation, Bashar al- Assad regime uses its air forces and carries out about 7000 airstrikes in July
SOHR documented 6673 airstrikes carried out by the regime air force since 07/01/2015 until 07/31/2015, where the airstrikes targeted several villages, towns and cities in 13 provinces.
The helicopters dropped 3654 barrel bombs on different areas in the provinces of Rif Dimashq, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, al- Hasakah, Deir Ezzor, al- Quneitera, al- Suwaydaa, Daraa, Idlib and Lattakia.
Meanwhile, the warplanes carried out at least 3019 raids on areas in the provinces of Damascus, Rif Dimashq, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, al- Hasakah, Deir Ezzor, al- Raqqa, al- Quneitera, Daraa, al- Suwaydaa, Idlib and Lattakia.
This statistic of airstrikes carried out by the regime warplanes and helicopters is considered the highest one since the beginning of this year, where the two provinces of Rif Dimashq and Daraa headed the list of shelling by receiving more barrel bombs than the other provinces.
On the other hand, SOHR also documented the death of 791 civilians, including 140 women, and 207 children, due to aerial bombardment carried out by the government warplanes and helicopters, while about 3000 other civilians were wounded and dozens of thousands displaced. The aerial bombardment also resulted in destroying public and private people’s properties as well as it left huge material damages in several areas.
The explosive barrels and air raids resulted in the death of 652 fighters from al- Nusra Front, IS, rebel and Islamic battalions while other hundreds fighters were wounded.
SOHR considers that the escalation of the regime of its airstrikes that targeted 13 provinces in the month that the UN convoy de Mistura visited Damascus, where he presented the report of his consultations about Syria to UN Security Council is a clear message to the international community that the only solution according to the regime forces is the daily killing of the Syrian regime by all means, especially the explosive barrels and containers.
SOHR renews its appeal to UN Security Council to assume its responsibilities and work on using its power in order to stop the daily killing committed against the Syrian people and destroying their social structure, coexistence, past, present and future by using all kind of weapons, whether they are firearms or media, where the Syria helicopters intensified and concentrated on using explosive barrels in the last six months Despite the adoption of resolution 2139 by the Security Council, where the most important mission of this resolution is to maintain the international peace and security.