The number of people who were executed and killed in the west of Daraa escalates raising to about 520, the number of citizens, members of the regime forces and their allies, the organizations, and the factions who were killed in 13 days

Daraa Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the number of casualties in Yarmouk Basin is escalating, with revealing the destiny of missing people as well as the death of others, where it rose to 62 persons at least including 11 children and 10 citizen women, the number of people who have been killed since the 19th of July 2018, as a result of bombardment by warplanes and helicopters as well as the shelling by the regime forces on Yarmouk Basin in the western countryside of Daraa, and this increase was coincided with the rise of the number of people who were executed by the gunmen loyal to the regime forces and the members of the factions of the “reconciliation”, while they were leaving Yarmouk Basin heading towards Hayt area west of Daraa, where it rose to at least 48 persons at least including 8 women and boys, the number of the people of the families of Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid, who were killed, where they were shot after facilitating their exit from the are of Yarmouk Basin, also the SOHR has documented the death of 297 members of Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” Organization, who have been killed since the 19th of July 2018, the date of starting the regime’s operation against Jaysh Khaled Ibn Al-Waleed, and it also documented the death of at least 110 members and officers of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, who were killed in the same period, also hundreds others in the ranks of the both parties were injured with varying severity.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored cautious calm prevailing the west of Daraa, after a series of strikes which targeted the last areas where the fighters of Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” Organization gathered, amid fears about the fact that the regime forces may stopped the shelling in order to transport the remaining fighters of Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid towards the Syrian Desert, also the intersected sources confirmed hours ago to the Syrian Observatory that the strikes came after the failure of the first round of negotiations with the organization to transfer about 100 of who remained of Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid with about 150 “presumed captive” to the organization’s areas of presence in the desert, in exchange of the release of 30 abductees of the women and children and returning them to their families, where negotiations have been impeded amid attempts to reactivate and resume them, in order to finish them and complete the regime forces’ deployment in the entire Province of Daraa, after controlling all villages, towns, and cities, through a military operation and “reconciliations”, and the airstrikes were accompanied by artillery and missile shelling by the regime forces on the same areas.

While the Syrian Observatory published this morning that the regime forces continue sweeping the areas they controlled yesterday night, Monday, in Yarmouk Basin area in the western countryside of Daraa, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored clashes between the regime forces and factions of the “reconciliation ” against members of Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” organization, of who fled towards valleys near the villages of Beit Ara and Koya, after the regime forces advanced yesterday and controlled the whole areas which used to be controlled by Jaysh Khalid in Yarmouk Basin, and in the details monitored by the Syrian Observatory: about 100 members of Jaysh Khaled fled towards valleys on the border with Jordan near Beit Ara and Koya, and the Syrian Observatory also learned that those members are taking civilians as human shields in the valleys to which they fled, while the aerial and rocket sweep continues,  where warplanes and helicopters continue to target these valleys in conjunction with rocket shelling carried out by the regime forces on the same places. And in the same context, the Syrian Observatory learned that about 60 members of Jaysh Khaled surrendered to the regime forces yesterday when the regime forces entered al-Shajra town, while the fate of the rest of the members of Jaysh Khalid Ibn al-Walid which swore allegiance to the “Islamic State” organization is still unknown until now.