Condemning the international attitude, statements of the UN envoy, and the attack which is being prepared against Idlib, thousands of citizens demonstrate in countryside of Idlib and Aleppo
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored thousands of citizens demonstrating in most of the areas which are controlled by the rebel and Islamic factions, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, the Turkish Forces and the factions supported by them, on Friday, the 31st of August 2018, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored demonstrations in Jisr al-Shughur, Sarmada, Khan Shaykhun, al-Dana, al-Hbit, Ariha, Maarrat al-Nu’man, al-Ghadqa, Marshourin, Kafr Nubl, and Kelli in the countryside of Idlib Province, and al-Atareb, al-Bab, Azaz, Darat Azza, al-Eis, Kafr Halab, al-Zerba, Anadan, Batbu, Anjarah, Marea’, and Jarabulus in the countryside of Aleppo, and several the other areas in the countryside of Aleppo and Idlib, denouncing the international stalemate and failure to show real reactions to the regime’s preparations to attack Idlib province, and demanding an active movement to spare civilians a real massacres, also demonstrators attacked the UN envoy to Syria Stefan Demistura describing him as a “liar”, they also denounced regime’s preparations for a major operation with Russian support against Idlib province and its surroundings, and numerous civic parties participated in the demonstrations, and the people raised anti-regime, allies, and Russian banners and slogans.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published last night that tens of local councils announced the launch of “the popular campaign for supporting those who are stationed in the fronts” through a statement, of which the Syrian Observatory received a copy, where the councils called through their statement, for supporting those who are stationed in the fronts, and for getting out in overwhelming demonstrations tomorrow, Friday the 31st of August 2018, calling for standing side by side with those who are stationed in the fronts against the planned battle that the regime forces are preparing for in Idlib province, and the local councils included the towns and villages of ((Deir Hassan, Afs, Aqrapat, Jobas, Kafr Battikh, Maar Shamarin, Tell Mannas, Tell Touqan, Kafar Yahmoule, Maarrat Misrin, arjnaz, Tell Sultan, Barissa, Al-Mushrifah al-Dhahabiyah, Masada, Zardana, Sarmada, Al-Rayyan, Khan Al-Sabil, Khan Shaykhun, Shalkh and other towns and villages))
In the same context and in conjunction with these demands, the regime forces are continuing to distribute and deploy the military reinforcements which are arriving consecutively to the contact areas, as a part of the grand battle of Idlib which the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them are being prepared for, and the regime forces published hours ago, that as time passes and the regime forces’ military operation and the grand battle of Idlib approach, the unprecedented mobilization is continuing for a battle in which the majority of the military power operates on the Syrian land, is suggested to participate, after the control of the Syrian opposition decreased and after it was confined within large spaces of the northern countryside of Hama, Sahl Al-Ghab, areas in the north-west of Hama, parts of the northern mountains of Lattakia, the western countryside of Aleppo, and spaces of the southern countryside of Idlib, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored in the recent weeks, that the regime forces brought massive military reinforcements, represented by bringing tens of thousands of members of the forces of their army and gunmen loyal to them, and the SOHR learned from a number of intersected sources that the regime forces have deployed more than 2000 armored vehicles on the contact lines extended from the northern mountains of Lattakia to the eastern countryside of Idlib passing through Sahl Al-Ghab, the northern countryside of Hama and the south-eastern countryside of Idlib, amid intensifying the positions and guard posts, and preparing their members for a grand battle through which they aim to advance at the expense of the factions and take the control of the largest possible area.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the arrival of hundreds of fighters, as well, of the opposition factions which joined in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, the capital Damascus, and the provinces of Daraa and Al-Quneitra to the “reconciliation and settlements”, after the regime forces imposed their control over the factions’ areas, thus, the fighters of the opposition who fight previously against the regime forces, fight today in the side of the regime forces within the battle of Idlib, while the SOHR monitored that the regime forces are transferring more of their forces to the contact lines and fronts of clashes against the rebel and Islamic factions, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and the Turkestani Islamic Party starting from the northern mountains of Latakia to southern countryside of Aleppo, and the dispatch of members is mainly focused to the fronts of the southeastern countryside of Idlib with Sahl al-Ghab, while the regime forces are transferring members of the newly recruited members to calm fronts, in conjunction with transferring their members to the contact lines in preparation for the grand battle of Idlib.