The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After his warplanes and ground forces destroyed it, Bashar al-Assad visits al-Hbit town south of Idlib in conjunction with targeting by more than 150 rocket shells for the countryside of Idlib, Hama, and Latakia

The regime forces launched about 150 shells and missiles targeting Arinbeh, Om al-Sir, al-Naqir, Tremla, Hassaneh, Baarbu, Stuh al-Dier, Sheikh Mustafa, Rakaya, Maarzita, Jabbala, Ma’arrat al-Sin, Hzarin, Kafr Nubl, Hish, Sheikh Damas, Muqah, Ameriyah, Om Jalal, Tal Damm, Abu Sharji, al-Salhiya, and al-Tah in the southern and eastern countryside of Idlib, al-Hawash, Hawijah, Khirbet al-Naqous, and al-al-Sermaniyyeh in the western countryside of Hama, and Kabani area in Latakia countryside, causing the injury of a child in Ma’aret Hurmah town, where escalation of shelling this morning comes in conjunction with the visit of the head of the Syrian regime’s pyramid Bashar al-Assad to the regime forces in al-Hbit area south of Idlib city, while a fighter of the Islamic factions was killed and others were injured in targeting by the regime forces using rocket shells for their sites in the southern countryside of Idlib yesterday, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored renewed aerial bombardment target “Putin – Erdogan” area where the helicopters returned and dropped barrel bombs Tuesday morning on Kabani area in the northern countryside of Latakia.

And with the fall of more casualties, it rose to at least 4220, 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 22nd of October 2019, and they are: 1084 civilians including 267 children and 193 citizen women, and they are 230 including 44 children and 43 women, and 8 of the civil defense and 5 of the ambulance team were killed in Russian aerial bombardment on the countryside of Idlib and Hama, and 88 including 19 women and 15 children were killed in the fall of barrel bombs, and 542 including 155 children, 91 women, and 5 members of the rescue teams were killed in targeting by regime’s warplanes, also 137 people including 24 women and 24 children were killed in a ground shelling carried out by the regime forces, and 81 citizens including 26 children and 15 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 1708 fighters were killed in the Russian airstrikes and the regime’s aerial and ground shelling including 1114 of the Jihadis, in addition to killing of 1435 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 22nd of October 2019, and Syrian Observatory documented the death of 4749 people in the Russian – Turkish truce areas, they are 1363 civilians including 348 children under the age of eighteen and 257 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 107 people including 31 children under the age of eighteen and 19 citizen women over the age of eighteen, they were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 1794 fighters were killed in different conditions within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 1149 fighters of the “Jihadis” and 1592 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 4980 people in areas of Erdogan – Putin agreement, they are: 1446 civilians including 377 children and 271 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 108 people including 31 children and 20 women, were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 1861 fighters were killed in deferent circumstances within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 1251 of the “Jihadi” fighters, and 1675 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them.