Renewed artillery shelling on the areas of the truce of the Russians and Turks targets the southern countryside of Idlib province
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored more explosions which rocked the areas of the Turkish – Russian truce in its 4th day of its implementation, it turned out that they were caused by targeting by the regime forces by more shells to areas in Al-Taman’aa town which is located in the southern countryside of Idlib, without information about casualties, where this shelling is coincided with the fall of rocket shells on areas in the fronts of Jabal Al-Turkman, and the area of Al-Yamdiyyah near the administrative border of Idlib province, and this is the second violation in the truce’s 4th day, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored cautious calm prevailing the areas of the Russian-Turkish truce since the midnight of Friday – Saturday until this morning, where shells launched by the regime forces on places in al-Tamanah area in the southern countryside of Idlib, while the cautious calm coincided with continuous fortifications carried out by the regime forces and the factions for their points located on the contact line in Sahl al-Ghab and Latakia mountains, following the shelling that took place in the past 3 days of the Russian-Turkish truce in Aleppo, Idlib, Hama, and Latakia provinces, which witnessed artillery and aerial bombardments by tens of rocket and artillery shells and barrel bombs, which targeted al-Lataminah, Hasraya, Abu-Ra’idah al-Sharqiyah, al-Sakhr, Morek, the vicinity of Kafr Zeta and other areas in the northern countryside of Hama, and al-Tamanah, al-Tah, al-Khwyn, Om al-Khalakhil, Om Maraq and other areas in the southern and southeastern countryside of Idlib, where the shelling damaged property in areas located to the east of Damascus-Aleppo international highway, which passes through Idlib Province.
The bombardment which targeted areas in Al-Taman’aa and Al-Tah and its vicinity, as well as Aziziyah area, Khan Shaykhun countryside, Umm Al-Khalakhil and the other areas of Idlib countryside, which resulted in the death of 4 citizens including a child who were killed as a result of bombardment during the truce in both Idlib and Hama countryside, raising to 19 persons at least including 5 children and 4 women, the number of people who have been killed in Tahtaya, Al-Taman’aa, Al-Tah and Khan Shaykhun in the southern countryside of Idlib, since the 10th of August 2018, the date of the regime forces’ return to escalate their aerial and ground shelling on the southern sector of Idlib countryside, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the explosions rocked areas in both southern countryside of Idlib and northern countryside of Hama, caused by the return of shelling and violations by the regime forces, to the Russian – Turkish truce which has completed its 3rd consecutive day, where the regime forces targeted areas in Murak town and places in Hasaraya village by a number of shells, in conjunction with artillery targeting to the village of Abu Ra’idah al-Sharqiyyah, Al-Sakhr village and areas in the vicinity of Kafr Zita in the northern sector of Hama countryside, which caused material damage, without information about casualties, the regime forces also shelled areas in the villages of Al-Khwaiyn and Umm Al-Khalakhil in the southern countryside of Idlib, along with exchange of targeting by heavy machineguns in one of the fronts of Jabal Al-Turkman in the northern countryside of Lattakia, which resulted in the fall of wounded, amid movements by the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them monitored by the SOHR, in areas in the northern mountains of Lattakia.