The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Regime’s warplanes escalate their strikes on Idlib countryside through more than 25 airstrikes in 2 hours killing a woman and 3 of her children including children, in bombing Deir Sharqi village

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of a woman and 3 of her sons including 2 children in airstrikes carried out by regime’s warplanes on Saturday morning, which targeted Deir Sharqi village in Maarrat al-Nu’man countryside south of Idlib, and the number of casualties may rise because there are 5 persons in critical conditions, also the Syrian Observatory documented the death of 2 men in Russian airstrikes targeted Khan Shaykhun city on the 14th of August 2019, where 2 men were lost before they were found this morning under the rubble of a house, where they came to the city to bring personal needs, while it rose to 47, the number of raids carried out by regime’s warplanes on places in Khan Shaykhun, al-Rakaya, Hish, Kafrsajna, Sheikh Mustafa, Tar’ei, Ma’aret Hurmah, Marshourin, Deir Sharqi, Hazarin, al-Tamanah, and outskirts of Talmanas south of Idlib province.

And with the fall of more casualties, it rose to at least 3468, 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 17th of August 2019, and they are: 932 civilians including 231 children and 172 citizen women, and they are 190 including 39 children and 41 women, and 7 of the civil defense and 5 of the ambulance team were killed in Russian aerial bombardment on the countryside of Idlib and Hama, and 69 including 15 women and 10 children were killed in the fall of barrel bombs, and 487 including 136 children, 82 women, and 4 members of the rescue teams were killed in targeting by regime’s warplanes, also 107 people including 20 women and 20 children were killed in a ground shelling carried out by the regime forces, and 79 citizens including 26 children and 13 women were killed in shelling by the factions on al-Suqaylabiyah, Qamhana, Al-Rasif, Al-Aziziyah, Karnaz, Jurin, Al-Nairab Camp, neighborhoods in Aleppo city and its southern countryside, while at least 1348 fighters were killed in the Russian airstrikes and the regime’s aerial and ground shelling including 870 of the Jihadis, in addition to killing of 1188 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 17th of August 2019, and Syrian Observatory documented the death of 3997 people in the Russian – Turkish truce areas, they are 1218 civilians including 313 children under the age of eighteen and 236 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 105 people including 31 children under the age of eighteen and 17 citizen women over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 1434 fighters were killed in different conditions within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 915 fighters of the “Jihadis” and 1345 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 4227 people in areas of Erdogan – Putin agreement, they are: 1301 civilians including 340 children and 248 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 106 people including 31 children and 16 women, were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 1501 fighters were killed in deferent circumstances within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 1017 of the “Jihadi” fighters, and 1425 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.