The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Clashes continue violently northwest of Hama amid intense air and ground strikes killing more than 15 of both parties

The rebel and Islamic factions and the jihadist groups continue their violent attack on the villages of Jalmah and Kafrhoud at the northwestern countryside of Hama, amid violent clashes against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them with Russian support, amid continued intense aerial and ground bombardment by Warplanes and helicopters of the regime, and the Syrian Observatory documented human casualties due to the violent attack and the air and ground strikes since dawn of today, where 9 of the Jihadis and the factions were killed during the shelling and the clashes, and 6 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them were also killed, and in the same context, regime’s warplanes carried out new raids on areas in al-Lataminah, Hasraya, Tal Meleh, Abu Ra’idah, al-Zakat and Kafr Zita in the northern and northwestern countryside of Hama.

And with the fall of more casualties, it rose to at least 1679, the number of people who were killed since the 30th of April 2019, the date of start of the most violent escalation in terms of aerial and ground bombardment, shelling, and targeting since Putin – Erdogan agreement, until the 18th of June 2019, and they are: 441 civilians including 108 children and 90 citizen women, and they are 52 including 16 children and 16 women, another woman and two of her children, were killed in Russian aerial bombardment on the countryside of Idlib and Hama, and 43 including 9 women and 5 children were killed in the fall of barrel bombs, and 246 including 49 women, 62 children, and a member of the rescue teams were killed in targeting by regime’s warplanes, also 65 people including 10 women and 9 children were killed in a ground shelling carried out by the regime forces, and 35 citizens including 15 children and 4 women were killed in shelling by the factions on al-Suqaylabiyah, while at least 677 of the jihadi groups were killed in the Russian airstrikes and the regime’s shelling including 459 of the Jihadis, in addition to the killing of 561 members of the regime forces in targeting and shelling by jihadi groups and factions.

And during the period between the 15th of February 2019; the date of the meeting of “Rouhani – Erdogan – Putin” until the 18th of June 2019, the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 2207 people in the Russian – Turkish truce areas, they are 728 civilians including 191 children under the age of eighteen and 154 women over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the Russian aerial bombardment and the rocket shelling by the regime forces and the factions, and among the death toll of civilians there are 63 people including 21 children under the age of eighteen and 10 citizen women over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 763 fighters were killed in different conditions within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 504 fighters of the “Jihadis” and 716 of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.

While the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented since the start of the Russian – Turkish truce the death of 2437 people in areas of Erdogan – Putin agreement, they are: 809 civilians including 221 children and 166 women, were killed in shelling by the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them, targeting, and bombardment by warplanes, and among them there are 65 people including 21 children and 8 women, were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 830 fighters were killed in deferent circumstances within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 519 of the “Jihadi” fighters, and 798 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.