The demilitarized zone comes again under the regime’s firepower of heavy weapons
The regime forces returned to breach the Russian – Turkish truce, targeting places in the buffer area, which stretches from the north-eastern mountains of Lattakia to the north-western suburbs of Aleppo, passing through both Hama and Idlib countryside, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the regime forces targeting by heavy machineguns, areas in al-Jisat village in the northern sector of Hama countryside, which is located in the buffer demilitarized zone, which was agreed upon after consensus between Russia and Turkey, which caused material damage, without information about casualties, and the Syrian Observatory published hours ago, that the areas of the Russian – Turkish truce and the demilitarized area, which is stretching from the northeastern mountains of Latakia through Hama and Idlib to the northwestern suburbs of Aleppo city; are witnessing anticipation as less than 72 hours remained for Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the “Jihadi” factions to get their members out of the buffer area, which was agreed upon by the Russians and Turks, where the factions withdrew their entire heavy weapons from the buffer area and concealed it in it, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has not yet monitored any signs or indications of the possibility of getting the factions out of the demilitarized area until now, despite the promises made to Turkey earlier by “jihadi” and Islamic factions, that they will withdraw from the buffer area and implement the Turkish – Russian agreement, and deliver it to factions close to Turkey.
This monitoring comes after the Syrian Observatory published this morning that no withdrawal has been made by members with their light weapon of the “jihadi” factions, such as Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamic Turkestani Party, Hurras al-Dien, Ansar al-Din, and other “jihadi groups”, of which the Russian – Turkish agreement including the complete withdrawal of their members with light, medium, and heavy weapons from the demilitarized area, which stretches from the northern countryside of Latakia to the northwestern suburbs of Aleppo city and passes through the countryside of Hama and Idlib, where it was agreed upon after the meeting that took place between the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Russian President Vladimir Putin on the 17th of September 2018, where the agreement includes the withdrawal of these Jihadi factions completely with all their weapons from the area, and there has been no new withdrawal from the area, where the last withdrawal took place some 15 days ago when Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham withdrew from its points in the areas of Morek and Lahaya located in the northern countryside of Hama, while the SOHR published yesterday that an armored vehicle of the regime forces broadcasted threats to the factions in the area of the western outskirts of Aleppo, included threats to target everyone who will not leave the demilitarized zone before the 15th of October 2018, threatening to shell and kill them, and that they (the regime forces) know where the factions are located and hidden, and the tunnels and shelters will not protect the factions, as the Russian Air Forces will exterminate all the faction’s fighter, and they enabled them to choose either “wanton deaths or the handover of weapons and the return to bosom of the Motherland”.