The fighting in the eastern countryside of Hama is escalating with an increase in the pace of aerial and ground shelling
Hama province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: the pace of clashes have increased between the regime forces and their militiamen of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities against members of the “Islamic State” organization in areas in the vicinity of Jana al-Alabawi and Salba in the eastern countryside of Salamiyah city, and the violent clashes are accompanied by escalating shelling by the regime forces on the clash area and the organization-held areas, while the Russian and the regime warplanes shelled the same areas by tens of airstrikes, which caused material damages and there is information about human losses in the ranks of both parties.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that more than 120 raids targeted the villages of Al-Hessu, Jannah al-Alabawi, al-Rwayda, Abu Hanaya, Abu Hbeilat and other areas in the area of Uqayribat, and several local sources told the Syrian Observatory that at least 60 civilians were killed and injured in the aerial shelling on al-Rwayda village and several other areas in the eastern countryside of Hama. At least 22 of them were killed, including 6 children and 4 women, while the death toll is expected to increase because there are injured people in serious conditions, in addition to the missing people, whose fate is still unknown, while many of the injured exist in the area which was shelled because it is difficult to rescue them due to the ongoing shelling on the area by the warplanes and the regime forces.
This escalation of the destruction of infrastructure and the heavy shelling on the villages in the eastern countryside of Hama and the destruction of these villages by Russian warplanes and the regime’s aerial and ground targeting were coincided with the increasing bad humanitarian conditions, where 5 thousand civilians exist in this besieged area in the villages in the eastern countryside of Hama and the area linked to the eastern countryside of Homs, and they are suffering from tragic situations, due to the great shortage of food, medicines, hospitals and medical care, in addition to the shortage of the doctors specialized in some critical cases.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago that it monitored the Russian warplanes and others belong to the regime forces while carrying out tens of airstrikes on the organization-held areas in Uqayribat town and the villages controlled by the “Islamic State” organization in the eastern and northeastern countryside of Salamiyah within the besieged area. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that more than 120 raids targeted the villages of Al-Hessu, Jannah al-Alabawi, al-Rwayda, Abu Hanaya, Abu Hbeilat and other areas in the area of Uqayribat, and several local sources told the Syrian Observatory that at least 60 civilians were killed and injured in the aerial shelling on al-Rwayda village and several other areas in the eastern countryside of Hama. At least 22 of them were killed, including 6 children and 4 women, while the death toll is expected to increase because there are injured people in serious conditions, in addition to the missing people, whose fate is still unknown, while many of the injured exist in the area which was shelled because it is difficult to rescue them due to the ongoing shelling on the area by the warplanes and the regime forces.
This escalation of the destruction of infrastructure and the heavy shelling on the villages in the eastern countryside of Hama and the destruction of these villages by Russian warplanes and the regime’s aerial and ground targeting were coincided with the increasing bad humanitarian conditions, where 5 thousand civilians exist in this besieged area in the villages in the eastern countryside of Hama and the area linked to the eastern countryside of Homs, and they are suffering from tragic situations, due to the great shortage of food, medicines, hospitals and medical care, in addition to the shortage of the doctors specialized in some critical cases.