(Pictures) Khan Shaykhun is a ghost city following a ground and aerial shelling escalation that displaced more than 30000 residents after it killed tens of them
The killing by the regime through the massive escalation continues on a city that witnessed less than 2 years ago a massacre, which killed and injured hundreds of civilians in Khan Shaykhun city in the southern sector of Idlib countryside, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored continuous escalation by the regime forces and warplanes against Khan Shaykhun city, where the last hours witnessed intense shelling in a continuation for the escalation that was started by the regime forces on the 9th of February 2019, where the warplanes targeted areas in Khan Shaykhun city, which killed a child and injured others, raising the number of casualties to 43 including 13 children and 15 women, the number of people killed in Khan Shaykhun since the 9th of February 2019 due to the shelling that targeted the city including a child girl who was killed in the aerial bombardment on the city, raising in turn to 328 at least, the number of people who were killed since Erdogan – Putin agreement, 145 civilians including 56 children and 29 women, were killed in shelling by the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them, among them 6 citizens including a child, who 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 97 members of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them.
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 30000 people have displaced fleeing the rocket and artillery shelling that targeted the city, the 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.
Pictures by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights show the city of Khan Shaykhun empty, where regime’s shelling and its large air and ground escalation on the city turned its to a ghost city, after killing tens of civilians and injuring tens of others, as well as the destruction and devastation in the property of citizens and the public facilities.