The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

With the renewed fighting in the countryside of Aleppo, tension prevails in the area following fire shooting by Tahrir Al-Sham at demonstrators from Al-Atareb town less than 24 hours of bloody massacre in the town

Tension prevails in the western countryside of Aleppo, following fire shooting at demonstrators from Al-Atareb town, in which a bloody massacre took place, leaving more than 61 people killed including 5 children and 6 women, in addition to tens of people injured, and in the details obtained by the SOHR from reliable sources, the people of Al-Atareb town went out in a demonstration near a checkpoint in the outskirts of the town in order to prevent a convoy of Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham from moving towards clash areas against Noor Al-Din Al-Zenky, and asked them to stop and return back because they won’t allow them to pass, but a member of Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham opened fire at the people of the town, leaving 3 demonstrators injured, according to cross sources, which angered the people of the town.

On the other level, violent fighting took place between fighters of Noor Al-Din Al-Zenky Movement against Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham in areas in the vicinity of Kafrnaha area in the western countryside of Aleppo, in conjunction with an exchange of targeting in the clash areas between both parties.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: the SOHR learned that a woman was killed and her children were injured when a shell fell, cross sources said its source is Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham during their attack in Awajeal area in the western countryside of Aleppo, rising to at least 5, the number of martyrs, who were killed since the fighting began on the 7th of November 2017, including a woman and 2 children, while calm prevails cautiously along with tension on the areas of contact between Noor Al-Din Al-Zenky Movement and Hayaat Tahrir Al-Sham in the fighting square in the western countryside of Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that it learned that the violent clashes renewed in areas in the vicinity of the Regiment 111 in al-Sheikh Sulaiman area and in the vicinity of the towns and villages of Ewijel, Tadil, Kafrnaha and Taqad in the western countryside of Aleppo, between Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham against Nur al-Din al-Zanki Movement, accompanied by the exchange of targeting between both parties, but no information about casualties, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the clashes erupted after what was confirmed by intersected sources for the Observatory that Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham is the one who started attacking, and these clashes came after a calm ion the western countryside of Aleppo for about 24 hours in the contact areas between both parties, where the Syrian Observatory published hours ago that Calm is still prevailing the contact areas between Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, in the western countryside of Aleppo, although the time of the ceasefire on the contact points between the both parties has finished, and the ceasefire between the both parties has been put in effect since last night and lasted until this noon, but the both parties have not clashed until now, and al-Zenki Movement gave the mediators time limited to this evening in order to obtain a statement from Abu Mohammad al-Julani – the leader of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham – about ceasefire between Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and al-Zenki Movement.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 4 citizens including two brother children, as a result of the exchange of shelling between al-Zenki and Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham and the fighting between the both parties in areas in the western countryside of Aleppo, and the number of casualties of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham who were killed in this fighting, has increased to 19 members at least including an Egyptian judge, while 6 fighters at least of Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement were killed during 6 days of the violent fighting and the attacks were distributed in the areas of Taqad, Al-Ibizmu, Khan al-Asal, Urum al-Kubrah, Kafr Naha, Uwayjil, Al-Sahara, Sadiyeh, Arab Fatumah, Darat Izza, Tadil, the Regiment 111 in Sheikh Salman and Jam’eyyat Al-Kahrabaa in the western countryside of Aleppo, and the fighting between the both parties turned into hit-and-run clashes, and counter attacks between Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham against Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, in which the movement includes fighters most of them are from the western countryside of Aleppo, which strengthens it against the attacks of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham.