Ground shelling increase the tragedy of Khan Shaykhun and raises the death toll to 39 civilians including 25 children and women with escalating violations

Violations continue in the Russian – Turkish truce areas in the 4 provinces and the demilitarized areas of Putin – Erdogan, where the regime forces targeted areas in the towns of al-Tamanah and al-Khwyn in the southeastern countryside of Idlib, and Khan Shaykhun city in the southern sector of Idlib, killing a citizen and wounding others in Khan Shaykhun city, while the regime forces shelled areas in the villages of Yaqed al-Adas and Ma’arrat al-Artiq in the northern countryside of Aleppo, raising to 39 citizens including 12 children and 13 women, the number of casualties who have been killed in the ground shelling since the 9th of February 2019, and in the ground shelling on Khan Shaykhun, where massacres are being carried out claiming the lives of more citizens amid the world’s ignore to this tragedy and the killing operations in the city which previously witnessed a massacre by gas which left hundreds of people dead and wounded, raising, in turn, to 297 at least, the number of people who were killed since Erdogan – Putin agreement, 131 civilians including 51 children and 26 women, were killed in shelling by the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them, among them 5 were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 74 fighters were killed in deferent circumstances within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 14 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 82 members of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published this morning that Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored renewed shelling targeted areas of the Russian – Turkish truce after midnight of yesterday, where the regime forces targeted by rocket shells places in the deserted battalion area and Taweel al-Haleeb in the eastern sector of Idlib countryside, and other places on the outskirts and vicinity of al-Najeya in the countryside of Jisr al-Shughur city and the road leading to Jabal al-Akrad in the northern countryside of Latakia, but no information about casualties yet, and the Syrian Observatory published during the past hours that Syrian Observatory monitored that the number of casualties has raised, as a result of the rocket shelling by the regime forces on Khan Shaykhun city today, Saturday, the 23rd of February 2019, where it rose to 7, including a woman and her unborn son, a child and another woman, the number of casualties who were killed in the massacre, and the death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of injured cases some of which are in serious conditions.

In the same context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored rocket shelling today evening by the regime forces on places in Al-Humayrah and Khalseh villages in the southern countryside of Idlib, and Al-Mansurah town in the western sector of Aleppo countryside, ad other places in the Abandoned Battalion area in the eastern countryside of Idlib, and the SOHR published hours ago, that the  regime forces continues their repeated violations in areas of the Russian – Turkish truce in the 4 provinces and the demilitarized areas of Putin – Erdogan, where the regime forces shelled areas in the villages of Jesr Beit al-Ras and Khirbat al-Naqous in the northwestern countryside of Hama, while the regime forces launched rocket shells targeting areas in the towns and villages of Morek, Kafr Zita, al-Lataminah, al-Zakat, and al-Arba’in within the demilitarized area in the northern countryside of Hama, while several shells launched by the regime forces and fell on areas in Khan Shaykhun city in the southern countryside of Idlib, which killed a woman and injured other people, also the factions targeted by Grad missiles areas in Asilah village in the western countryside of Hama which is controlled by the regime forces.