Amid the flight of warplanes believed to Turkish over Idlib, the regime forces re-target sectors of Hama and Idlib and break the truce of the Russians and the Turks
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored new violations after the calm that prevailed on the first day of the 5th month of the “demilitarized area” agreement and the areas of Putin – Erdogan agreement, where the Syrian Observatory monitored the regime forces targeting places in Sahal village in the eastern countryside of Idlib by several rocket shells, coincided with similar targeting for other areas in al-Janabera village within the demilitarized area in the northern countryside of Hama, but no information about casualties, amid the flight of warplanes the sources suggested that the warplanes are Turkish warplanes which were flying over the north and northeast of Idlib Province, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published this morning that cautious calm prevails areas of the Russian – Turkish truce in the 4 provinces since after midnight of yesterday until now, interrupted by targeting by the regime forces using heavy machine guns at dawn of today in al-Lataminah town, in the northern countryside of Hama within the demilitarized area, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored shelling by the regime forces targeted places in the northeastern Mountains of Latakia and areas in Sahl al-Ghab, while “jihadi” factions targeted yesterday night sites of the regime forces in the southern countryside of Aleppo, but no information about casualties until now, and the Syrian Observatory published Thursday night that the regime forces renewed their shelling on areas, in the northern countryside of Hama, within the demilitarized zone, where they targeted today evening, Thursday, places in the vicinity of Al-Sakhr village by shells and heavy machineguns, without information about human losses, hours after similar shelling that targeted the northern countryside of Hama, and caused human and material losses, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, published hours ago, that renewed shelling targeted al-Lataminah area within Putin – Erdogan area which caused casualties, where the regime forces shelled areas in al-Lataminah town in the northern countryside of Hama in conjunction with shelling targeted al-Sermaniyyeh area on the administrative borders between Idlib and Hama, where the shelling that targeted al-Lataminah injured several citizens of one family until the rescue teams were able to get them out of the rubble caused by the shelling which killed a man, raising the death toll to 180 people in 4 complete months of Erdogan – Putin agreement, they are 44 civilians including 17 children and 6 women, were killed in shelling by the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them, among them 3 were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 56 fighters were killed in deferent circumstances within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 12 of the “Jihadi” fighters and 23 fighters of Jaysh al-Izza, who were killed in ambushes and clashes including a commander at least, they were killed in ambushes and attack by the regime forces in the northern countryside of Hama, and 80 members of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored more violations in the Russian – Turkish truce, where the regime forces targeted several areas in al-Nahr al-Abyad north of Jisr al-Shughur city within the western sector of Idlib province, also the regime forces shelled places in al-Lataminah and KafrZitta areas in the northern sector of the Hama countryside, which caused material damage, but no information about casualties, this came after rocket shelling by the time forces targeted places in the villages of Tal Khaznah and al-Mshirfah and al-Burj in the eastern countryside of Idlib, in conjunction with the opening heavy machineguns’ firer by the regime forces on places in the areas of al-Tamanah, Khwyn and Sukayk in the southeastern countryside of Idlib, also places in Morek town were shelled by the regime forces, also the regime forces targeted areas in KafrZitta town in the northern countryside of Hama, while Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham targeted by the rocket shells sites of the regime forces in Tal Bzam area in the northern sector of Hama countryside, also the regime forces targeted after midnight of yesterday areas in the eastern and southeastern countryside of Idlib.
The escalation of shelling on the 17th of January 2019, came as Putin – Erdogan agreement completed its 4th consecutive month since the agreement was implemented on the 17th of September 2018, after an agreement between the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Russian President Vladimir Putin, about the establishment of a demilitarized buffer area with items regarding the “leave of jihadis” of the area, and running Russian – Turkish patrols in the buffer area extending from the northeastern Latakia mountains through Hama and Idlib countryside, until the northwestern suburbs of Aleppo city, and these 4 months have seen the killings of civilians and the fall of casualties of the rebel, Islamic, and “jihadi” factions in addition to the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities