Regime’s systematic shelling on Khan Shaykhun pushes more than 21000 resident and displaced people to flee to other areas in Idlib countryside after killing and injuring tens of people
A forged presidential agreement and a truce that brought only killing and destruction, and stripped the guarantors of their agreements and the promises they made about ensuring the safety and peace, where since the 9th of February until the 25th of the same month in 2019; Khan Shaykhun city in the southern countryside of Idlib has been under constant shelling by the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them, which killed and injured tens of civilians, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the ground shelling -in addition to the casualties- had displaced people to other areas of Idlib countryside, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received confirmed information that the shelling on the neighborhoods of Khan Shaykhun was concentrated on the them sequentially, where the intensive shelling at the beginning was concentrated on the northern and eastern neighborhoods, and caused a complete displacement of residents of both neighborhoods, except for some young men who remained to guard the houses in both neighborhoods, followed by shelling targeted the western and southern neighborhoods from which a large number of residents were displaced, where more than 21000 people have displaced fleeing the rocket and artillery shelling that targeted the city.
Local sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the massive shelling has pushed former displaced people in Khan Shaykhun city from the countryside of Hama, to displace again, where the city is considered as a center for the displaced people, who are mostly coming from the areas that became under the control of the regime forces during the military operations in the recent years, also the Syrian Observatory documented that it rose to 40 civilian including 12 children and 13 women, the number of people killed in the ground shelling since 9th of February 2019, in the shelling that targeted Khan Shaykhun city, where massacres are being carried out claiming the lives of more citizens amid the world’s ignore to this tragedy and the killing operations in the city which previously witnessed a massacre by gas which left hundreds of people dead and wounded, also the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented that it rose to 308 at least, the number of people who were killed since Erdogan – Putin agreement, 136 civilians including 54 children and 26 women, were killed in shelling by the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them, among them 6 were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 76 fighters were killed in deferent circumstances within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 14 of the “Jihadi” fighters and 23 fighters of Jaysh al-Izza, who were killed in ambushes and clashes including a commander at least, they were killed in ambushes and attack by the regime forces in the northern countryside of Hama, and 86 members of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them.