The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After launching about 2055 rocket and artillery shells, relative and caution calm prevails the northern countryside of Hama

Hama Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: areas in M’aarkbeh village in the northern countryside of Hama were shelled by the regime forces this morning, but other than that; the cautious calm has been prevailing the countryside of Hama since after the midnight of yesterday, raising to at least 2055, the number of artillery and rocket shells that were launched by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them to, targeting areas in the northern, northeastern, and northwestern countryside of Hama during the last 36 days, where the rocket and artillery shelling targeted the villages and towns of the northern countryside of Hama such as al-Lataminah, Kafr Zita, Hasraya, Zakat, al-Janabera “al-Bana”, M’aarkbeh, al-Sayyad, Tal Osman, Hawash, and several other areas in this countryside.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that explosions rocked areas in the northern sector of Hama countryside once again, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored shelling by the regime forces on areas in Kafr Zita town and Hasaraya village, as well as al-Janabera village “al-Bana” and Tal Osman, and other areas in the same countryside, which caused further material damage, without information about casualties.

 

Also it is noteworthy that these shelling -which was monitored by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights- caused several casualties and wounded in the areas were the shells fell, also the intense shelling which varied between today and the other caused more destruction in the above-mentioned villages and towns, which had previously witnessed similar and more violent shelling, which caused considerable destruction and serious material damage to the citizens’ property, infrastructure, public, and private facilities, as well as hundreds of casualties and wounded, where the shelling increases when violent clashes or major attacks erupt between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against the rebel and Islamic factions.