About 50 casualties and injuries of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them in attacks by jihadi groups south Aleppo
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored after midnight of yesterday 2 simultaneous infiltration attacks by the jihadi groups, in Zammar and Khan Tuman areas in the southern and southwestern countryside of Aleppo within the demilitarized area, against positions of the regime forces in both areas, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the first attack was carried out by Hurras al-Dien faction of “Wa Harred al-Mu’minin which formerly used to belong to Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, against positions of the regime forces in areas of Zammar and Harish in the southern countryside of Aleppo, accompanied by exchange of shelling between both parties, in conjunction with a second attack by infiltrators of Jaysh Omar Ibn al-Khattab of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, against positions of the regime forces in Khan Tuman area in the southwestern countryside of Aleppo, where clashes took place between both parties in conjunction with exchange of targeting by machineguns, amid aerial bombardment on the clash areas, where the attacks killed 17 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, and injured about 30 others, in addition to killing 8 members of the factions of Hurras al-Dien and Jaysh Omar Ibn al-Khattab, raising to 725, the number of people who were killed since Erdogan – Putin agreement, they are: 354 civilians including 112 children and 78 women, they were killed in shelling by the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them, targeting, and bombardment by warplanes, and among them there are 28 people including 6 children and 5 women, were killed in the fall of shells launched by the factions, and 139 fighters were killed in deferent circumstances within the demilitarized area since Putin – Erdogan agreement, including 60 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 224 members of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 24th of April 2019 that the Jihadi groups and factions continue their activities in the demilitarized area of Putin – Erdogan, whose presence is supposed to be terminated months ago, but the jihadis have not only refused to withdraw, they are also carrying out their military activity in several places of the demilitarized area, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a new operation by a “jihadi” group in Sahl al-Ghab at the northwestern countryside of Hama, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: one of the independent jihadi groups which formerly used to be in the ranks of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, at dawn on Wednesday the 24th of April, carried out an infiltration operation against the regime forces’ sites in al-Hakura at Sahl al-Ghab, and the operation took place after the group infiltrated through Orontes River (aka Assi River), but it is not known if they crossed the river with boats or on a bridge previously detonated, after which clashes took place against members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them, accompanied by the one of the attackers detonating himself suing an explosive belt, and the Syrian Observatory documented casualties in the ranks of both parties, where at least 6 members of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them were killed and 3 of the attackers were also killed including the member who blew himself up with an explosive belt, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation, in addition to information about other casualties.