The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

36 casualties including 27 children and women in the largest massacre in Aleppo province in 2018 raise to about 50, the number of casualties who were killed in the first paving for the battle of the international road

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the death of more citizens in the bombardment which targeted Urum al-Kubrah town and caused the largest massacre in Aleppo province in 2018, where it rose to at least 36, the number of casualties which were killed in the massacre which was carried out by warplanes less than 24 hours ago, in Urum al-Kubrah town in the western sector of Aleppo countryside, and within the total death toll there are 20 children and 7 citizen women, and the death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of tens of injured and missed people, thus, it rose to at least 48, the number of casualties who were killed in the most violent bombardment in months, and the preliminary bloody day of the battle of the international road, and the casualties are 36 citizens including 20 children and 7 women killed in Urum al-Kubra massacre which was carried out by warplanes, 9 citizens including 1 child and 3 women who were killed in Khan Shaykhun massacre, and 3 citizens including 2 children were killed in the aerial bombardment on al-Tah town, and the intense aerial bombardment in both areas caused tens of people to go missing and injured, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation, and due to the presence of missing people under the ruins of destruction whose fate is not known yet, also the shelling caused destruction and serious damage to the infrastructure and property of citizens.

The Syrian Observatory published hours ago, that this cautious calm which followed shelling by the regime forces, comes to restore the entire road of Latakia-Aleppo, Aleppo-Damascus, and opening the road to Aleppo-Gaziantep, in order to activate and facilitate the movement, also the cautious calm today comes in conjunction with entering a new shipment of cement blocks and prefabricated walls by Turkish forces, via the crossing between Turkey and Syria, where the Turkish Forces are using them to fortify their military points and surrounding them with blocks and cement walls, in caser of sudden attacks that may be targeting them and to increase the protection of their members, while the raids acme after the regime forces brought massive military reinforcements of forces and soldiers to the countryside of Hama, Idlib, and Latakia, in preparation for a military operation, this aerial bombardment comes less than a month after regime’s airstrikes by helicopters targeted areas in the western countryside of Jisr al-Shughur, at the beginning of the second of July 2018, following a violent attack by the Islamic factions on the regime forces in the northern Mountains of Latakia, adjacent to the western countryside of Idlib, and intersected sources suggested to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that these strikes on the southern sector of Idlib, and the return of the aerial bombardment to the area, were the beginning of a military operation by the regime forces and their allies of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities in Idlib Province, after an operation took place months ago during which they controlled tens of villages and towns in the southern countryside of Idlib with the support of Russian Forces, and reached the eastern countryside of Idlib and Abu al-Duhur airbase, before the Turkish Forces were deployed in several areas in Idlib province, the northern and northwestern countryside of Hama, and areas connected to the foothills of Latakia mountains.